📅 2025-01-11 — Session: Reviewed economic thesis and macroeconomic modeling insights

🕒 06:55–07:15
🏷️ Labels: Economics, Thesis, Macroeconomics, Volatility, Modeling
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to provide feedback on a thesis related to economic volatility and explore shifts in macroeconomic modeling paradigms.

Key Activities

  • Critiqued a thesis exploring the relationship between micro-level fluctuations and macro-level volatility, providing insights on strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Discussed the importance of refining macroeconomic modeling, focusing on aggregate volatility and the need for better policy questions.
  • Summarized section goals in economic analysis, emphasizing diversification, firm size distribution, and micro-level fluctuations.
  • Proposed hypothetical sections for expanding the narrative on aggregate volatility, covering firm-level correlations and structural features of economic networks.
  • Analyzed novel contributions in economics, focusing on micro-moment dynamics, non-linearities, and the interplay between micro and macro dynamics.

Achievements

  • Delivered detailed feedback on the thesis, clarifying strengths and areas needing improvement.
  • Identified key areas for refining macroeconomic modeling and policy-making approaches.
  • Outlined potential expansions for economic volatility analysis, enhancing the understanding of aggregate volatility.

Pending Tasks

  • Further develop the hypothetical sections into detailed analysis for future sessions.
  • Explore additional empirical data to support theoretical insights on economic volatility.