Mihnea Constantinescu

Research ML & Macro ¦¦ Urban and Real Estate

[VoxEU @voxeu]

New methodology using factor estimation via partial least squares in conjunction with variable selection uncovers, in real-time, the rapid, unprecedented contraction in #Ukrainian GDP at the onset of the #Russian invasion.
@MihneaConst @NBUkraine_eng
https://t.co/b9O8tjyWIm

[Mihnea Constantinescu @MihneaConst]

Interested in *supervised* latent factor extraction for macro nowcasting?

Unlike PCR, partial least squares (PLS) compute factors that reduce dimensions of input matrix while also targeting a #nowcasting var. #MachineLearning var selection included. More in this @voxeu column

[VoxEU @voxeu]

New methodology using factor estimation via partial least squares in conjunction with variable selection uncovers, in real-time, the rapid, unprecedented contraction in #Ukrainian GDP at the onset of the #Russian invasion.
@MihneaConst @NBUkraine_eng
https://t.co/b9O8tjyWIm

[Mihnea Constantinescu @MihneaConst]

@FabioGhironi @lugaricano 🤞🏼✈️🚍🚉 ➡️ Kyiv in 2024

[Tobias Knoch @KnochTobias]

@Mylovanov An online lecture in "Mobility & Urban Logistics" took place for students at @kse_ua yesterday. Thanks @_Katja_Diehl_ @tomkirschbaum Bernhard, Christian @MihneaConst ❤️🙏
Due to air raid warnings for Kyiv students attended from within bomb shelters 💔💪

https://t.co/rWNbnnlJa4

[Mihnea Constantinescu @MihneaConst]

The first installment in the @kse_ua "Build Back Better" series developed with @KnochTobias

#mobility and #logistics lessons for post-war urban redevelopment

[Kyiv School of Economics @kse_ua]

After victory, we will need new approaches to rebuild and manage our cities. Ones that are citizen-focused and tackle the many dimensions of past inequality trends in our urban areas.

Registration on lecture: https://t.co/56iUvxSvfh

[Oleg Nivievskyi @oniviev1]

How the $60/barrel price cap on rus oil will work. If you buy at or below the cap you get the maritime services from the G7 companies, if above - go and find services elsewhere. G7 companies control >90% of the market. in the release from @USTreasury https://t.co/iAfN0sLybq

[Pierre Markuse @Pierre_Markuse]

🟠 Equally important for #RemoteSensing, #OSINT, #MEDIA people and basically everybody. This satellite image is showing a fire in an industrial area. However, the whole image is a fake created by the @OpenAI DALL-E AI. #scicomm #AI #DALLE 1/4

[Mihnea Constantinescu @MihneaConst]

The data-driven labor theory of value >> the unexpected AI twist

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

From now on the main value of all human work will be in providing the training data for AI.

[CEPR @cepr_org]

8 Dec ⏰16:00 GMT
Online launch of the #CEPR_Paris Report: Rebuilding #Ukraine: Principles and Policies. Join the editors @YGorodnichenko & @bweder and the chapter authors
@B_Eichengreen
@TDeryugina
@Mylovanov
@gerardrolanducb
@TorbjornBecker
https://t.co/JyqCb2OgAt
#EconTwitter

[Kyiv School of Economics @kse_ua]

KSE Urban Development Talks are coming back! And this time we are going to discuss AI and Cities.
Join the talk with urban planner, geographer, spatial data scientist and Emeritus Professor of Planning at
@ucl @jmichaelbatty.

Registration: https://t.co/cMyeNtOyVH

[Riccardo Crescenzi @crescenzi_r]

⚠️🚨⚠️

🆕📘
Very excited to share my new book, titled ‘Harnessing Global Value Chains for regional development’ co-authored with Oliver Harman (@the_IGC)

🌍📈🔗

It combines the latest academic evidence and public policy insights on GVCs and FDI. A 🧵...

#LSEHarnessingGVCs

[Bluesky @bluesky]

The World-Wide Web wouldn’t have been much fun if it was created without a browser, and the same is true of the AT Protocol. So we’re also building a Bluesky social app.

Join the waitlist at https://t.co/xjTBYE9oOJ

[Machine Learning | arXiv @arXiv__ml]

#arXiv #machinelearning [csLG] GLACIAL: Granger and Learning-based Causality Analysis for Longitudinal Studies. (arXiv:2210.07416v1 [cs.LG]) https://t.co/sOOKAtHF3O #mw

The Granger framework is widely used for discovering causal relationships based on time-varying signals. Imp…

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

What's the scale of the impact? Those 5m+ mortgagors hit by higher interest rates by Christmas 2024 will pay on average £5,100 more a year. That's over £26 billion overall - an income hit equivalent to a 5p rise in the basic rate of income tax

[Mallesh Pai @malleshpai]

A cool lab with some great people to work with and fascinating research questions: if you're a an econ-cs-y type with an interest in web3 research, consider this for a summer gig!

[Princeton Economics @PrincetonEcon]

In this paper, @ReddingEcon reviews recent quantitative urban models, which incorporate both differences in natural advantages and agglomeration forces, and can be taken directly to observed data on cities: https://t.co/PmeGyyo773

[Anh Nguyen @anhndm88]

"Governments face difficult policy trade-offs with record debt levels, tightening monetary policies, and urgent demands, including food and energy crises, the climate agenda, and population aging.

[Friederike Ernst 🦉 @tw_tter]

A credit card that is also a self custodial wallet? Yes, yes indeed.

Pay on any visa terminal with funds on @gnosischain. 🤯

And it gets better - if the merchant accepts stables, it bypasses Visa altogether. GAME... CHANGED 💪.

#DevconVI

[Dariia Mykhailyshyna @d_mykhailyshyna]

‼️ October 13h, 6PM CET we will have a workshop on TidyFinance Empirical Asset Pricing in R by @PatrickWeiss. Register or sponsor a student to learn by donating 20 euro to support Ukraine! Details: https://t.co/I8t0uomm2n
Please share!
#EconTwitter #RStats

[Tymofii Brik @brik_t]

October 13! We are honored to host an online conversation with Esther Duflo!
@GlobalMindsUA @KSE_Institute @kse_ua