Research
Six questions, twenty years, three continents
The work is organised by theme. Each section opens with the pieces that define it;
The full record — with formal citations — is under Publications.
Central banking & financial stability
How financial systems stay resilient — macroprudential frameworks, systemic risk beyond banks, and how a central bank communicates risk. Runs from early skepticism of the post-GFC consensus to leading the RBA’s flagship stability publication.
-> An early, skeptical assessment of the post-GFC macroprudential consensus.
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Digital money & tech regulation
How new forms of money and BigTech should be governed — CBDCs, crypto-assets, and the data trade-offs in regulating technology. Much of it written for the G20 through the T20 process.
-> The case for a global regulatory framework before digital money outruns it.
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ESG & sustainable finance
Why ESG ratings diverge, what a common framework would take, and what the G20 can do about it — before greenwashing became a supervisory concern.
-> The divergence problem in ESG ratings, diagnosed before it became consensus.
Global capital flows & investment
Where foreign capital goes and why — anchored by the Global Opportunity Index, a flagship annual ranking of countries’ attractiveness to investors, with regional deep dives from Southeast Asia to the GCC.
-> Flagship index ranking countries’ attractiveness to foreign investors; eight annual editions with regional focus reports.
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Data-driven policy: health & communities
Applying a machine learning clustering approaches to public health and US communities — the cost of dementia and obesity, health literacy gaps, and county-level data tools used by policymakers and journalists, including a six-part USA TODAY investigation.
-> County-level profiles of US diversity built to inform policy; the COVID-19 version underpinned a six-part USA TODAY investigation.
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Econometrics & international finance
The academic foundations: time-series econometrics applied to exchange rates, purchasing power parity, and euro-area convergence. Published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Policy, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and Econometric Reviews, among others.
-> What modern unit root testing actually says about PPP .
-> The drivers of an appreciation, not the appreciation itself, determine the growth cost.
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Interactive data tools
The Global Opportunity Index, Community Explorer, Labor Market Explorer, COVID-19 Explorer, and Tech-Regulation Tracker — all in one place.
Looking for something older or narrower? The complete chronological record is in the Milken Institute archive and the formal citation list under Publications.