James Savage

James Savage

New York, New York, United States
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Bayesian statistician/data scientist/economist, principally interested in:
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Experience

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    Avela Education

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    New York, New York, United States

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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Education

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    University of Melbourne

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    Activities and Societies: Faculty honours scholarship. Deans' list x2. Student rep to the boards of the Faculty of Law and Management and the School of Economics and Finance; president of the Business Students' Association; member of the Economic Society of Australia (Victoria branch) committee.

Publications

  • Super Savings

    Grattan Institute

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  • Super Sting: How to stop Australians paying too much for superannuation

    The Grattan Institute

    Australia has some of the highest fees for its superannuation products in the world. This paper examines why this is the case, whether these fees are compensated for with better funds management (they aren't), and what mechanisms are used in other countries to push down fees.

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  • Balancing budgets: tough choices we need

    Grattan Institute

    This report looks at the options available to Australian governments to fix their budgets in the medium-term. Lead author: John Daley; co-authors: Cassie McGannon, Amelie Hunter.

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  • The mining boom: impacts and prospects

    Grattan Institute

    A review of how the minerals boom of the last decade has affected the Australian economy, and some qualified speculation on what is likely to come next. The report is Jim Minfie's, with large contributions by Ittima Cherastidtham and Daniel Mullerworth. I made contributions also.

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  • Budget Pressures on Australian Governments

    Grattan Institute

    We identify several pressures--both revenue and expense pressures--on the Commonwealth and state governments over the coming decade. Without large policy shifts, governments are at risk of posting budget deficits of around 4 per cent of GDP within the decade. Co-written with John Daley and Cassie McGannon.

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  • Non-financial benefits of higher education

    Grattan Institute

    This work examined HILDA, the General Social Survey, and the Australian Surveys of Social Attitudes (2005, 7) for evidence that tertiary education results in higher levels of non-financial externalities. Once we restricted the analysis only to those who were most likely to actually go to university, most non-financial benefits appear to vanish.

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  • Tilting at Zombies

    Policy

    This is a fairly lengthy review of John Quiggin's 'Zombie Economics'. We found it to be an enjoyable, well written book, with much to agree about. However, we also have some disagreements. Co-written with Robert Wiblin.

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  • Monetary–Fiscal Interactions: How to Improve Policy Outcomes?

    Economic Papers

    This is a summary of some of the key ideas in the monetary-fiscal interactions literature, as discussed at the 2011 Conference of Australian Economists symposium on the topic. Co-written with Jan Libich and Carl Walsh.

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  • Tethering the Fiscal Sow: Monetary policy that keeps pork in the sty

    Policy

    This is a non-academic outline of the fiscal-monetary interaction arguments. It focuses on the proposition that governments that co-exist with an inflation-targeting national central bank tend to exhibit more prudent behaviour.

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  • Fiscal Neglect in a Monetary Union

    Economic Papers

    This model describes the moral hazard in a monetary union, even when the central bank targets inflation. Essentially, governments in small countries can get away with the sorts of fiscal incontinence that wouldn't rub if they had their own inflation-targeting central banks. Co-written with Jan Libich and Petr Stehlík.

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Projects

  • JB Hi Fi Stock Analysis Research

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    Finalist of the 2009 Investment Challenge Competition at La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • Indonesian

    Limited working proficiency

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