About

Biography

About

Welcome to my personal site. I am a research economist with interests in empirical macroeconomics and time series econometrics. I hold a DPhil in Economics from King's College London. My thesis focused on the natural rate of interest. Prior to my doctorate, I read Economics at the University of Cambridge and Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of London. Click below to see my abridged resume:

Omar Kaykhusraw
Research

Academic work

Research

Publication

Longer-Run Equilibrium Interest Rates

Kaykhusraw, O. (2024), Economica, 92(366), pp.457–482.

Working Papers

01

Working Paper

  • Equilibrium Real Interest Rates and Monetary Policy (Mis)perceptions
  • With G. Chortareas & G. Kapetanios
  • Revise & Resubmit: Journal of Money,
    Credit and Banking

02

Working Paper

  • Measuring the Market Perceived Neutral Rate
  • With G. Chortareas & P. Siklos
  • Under Review: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

03

Working Paper

  • Balkanization: A Monetary Allegory
  • With G. Chortareas & P. Siklos
  • Under Review: European Review of Economic History

04

Working Paper

  • Falling Stars in Small Open Economies
  • With G. Chortareas
  • Status: Work in Progress
Teaching

Academic instruction

Teaching

Current

Assistant Professor

Northeastern University — 2021 to 2026

Previous

Teaching Fellow

Queen Mary University of London — 2025 to 2026

Conferences

Academic presentations

Conferences

2026

Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society; International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance; Spring Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting; European Economics and Finance Society Conference.

2024

Meeting of the European Economic Association and the European Meeting of the Econometric Society; Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics; Annual Conference of the Economic History Society.

2023

Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society; Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society; International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance; 15th WU-FIW Conference on International Economics; Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association; Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association; Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics.

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Code

Tools & Replication

Code

Time-Varying Phillips Curves

This tool presents time-varying estimates of the Phillips curve across multiple regions.
Using kernel-weighted regression methods, it traces the relationship between inflation
and unemployment over time, capturing structural shifts that static models often miss.

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Unobserved Components Model

This function implements the Stock and Watson (2007) unobserved components
model with stochastic volatilities. It employs a gamma random variable generator
function and can be used to extract the trend of any given univariate time series.

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VAR Historical Decomposition

This function takes in the output from the VAR function (refer to the vars package)
and computes the vector autoregression historical decomposition. It is an abridged
translation of Cesa-Bianchi's MATLAB code (from his VAR-Toolbox) designed for R.

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Contact

Get in touch

Contact

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