Welcome!
I am an economist based in New York City. I have worked at DTCC, State Street, and Morningstar.
I received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and a masters degree in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam.
My main areas of expertise are macroeconomics, finance, and (Bayesian) econometrics.
This website contains my research and commentary.
My e-mail address is: gideonmagnus 'at' gmail.com
Research Papers and Commentary
4 lighthearted animated explainer videos:
Vier Frisse Fiscale Voorstellen
Metronieuws.nl, April 20, 2021
The Case for Monetary Policy Experimentation
Medium, January 31, 2022
The Estimation of Normal Mixtures with Latent Variables
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, February 2018
Joint with Jan R. Magnus
A Plausible Model of Yield Curve Dynamics
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, May 2016, Volume 30, Issue 2, pp 205–228
Distilling the Main Driver of Business Cycles
Unpublished manuscript
The Student-t Latent Factor Mixture Model with an Application to Global Asset Returns
Unpublished manuscript
How to Make Debt Less Dangerous
Posted on LinkedIn, December 14, 2018
What is the best way for Italy to leave the eurozone?
Unpublished
A Privately Run Universal Basic Income
Medium, November 3, 2020
Medium, October 5, 2020
A VAT Should Only Fund Essential Government Services
Medium, July 18, 2020
Don't Trust a Model Because it "Works"
Towards Data Science, July 21, 2019
Make Welfare Benefits Repayable
Medium, June 29, 2019
Medium, June 29, 2019
Keep The Corporate Tax Rate at 35%
Forbes, June 20, 2017
Toward a Better Small Business Tax Code
Forbes, April 11, 2017
Untangling the Most Pervasive Economic Fallacy
Morningstar Magazine, April/May 2015
Unraveling the Mysteries of Money
A conversation with professors John Cochrane and Harald Uhlig.
Morningstar Magazine, August/September 2012