Elina Ribakova, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi, Tatiana Evdokimova, and Olga Ponomarenko speaking on Central Banks and Policy Communication: How Emerging Markets Have Outperformed the Fed and ECB.
The Hoover Institution hosts a seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 22nd meeting features a conversation with Elina Ribakova, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi, Tatiana Evdokimova, and Olga Ponomarenko on Central Banks and Policy Communication: How Emerging Markets Have Outperformed the Fed and ECB on Tuesday, Janunary 30, 2024 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
Elina Ribakova is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Brussels-based economic policy think tank Bruegel and a director of the International Affairs Program and vice president for foreign policy at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on global markets, economic statecraft, and economic sovereignty. She has been a senior adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security (2020–23) and a research fellow at the London School of Economics (2015–17).
Piroska Nagy Mohácsi is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Global Hub & Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her key research areas include financial resilience and stability, central bank reform, digital currencies, fiscal and monetary policy mix and related governance issues, and emerging-market policies. She previously held senior positions at the EBRD (2008-15), the IMF (1986-2008), and Fitch Ratings (2003-4).
Tatiana Evdokimova is the senior economist at the Joint Vienna Institute. She previously worked in the emerging markets research team of Nordea Bank, where she was responsible for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting with a focus on financial market trends. Prior to that, she was an economist at the economic service of the French embassy in Moscow conducting analytical research on economic developments in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Evdokimova holds a PhD in international economics. Her research interests lie in the areas of monetary policy, international capital flows, and climate change.
Olga Ponomarenko has been the head of quantitative analytics at Caplight since 2021. She previously worked as a quantitative analyst at Barclays and economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Steven J. Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He studies business dynamics, labor markets, and public policy. He advises the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum and is co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Davis hosts “Economics, Applied,” a podcast series sponsored by the Hoover Institution.
Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics.
