Since yesterday Bloomberg News printed an article calling me an economist. Boy, that was easier than grad school! Okay, so admittedly this is blatant self aggrandizement, but publicity like this doesn’t come every day. (Well, unless you’re my Dad!) So, the report summarizes the findings of our paper on investments by Sovereign Wealth Funds. To quote from the article, the companies receiving such investments
outperformed an index adjusted for market value and risk by 2.1 percent in the two days surrounding the announcement date, according to the report by Fed economists Jason Kotter and Ugur Lel published today. Read the full article
If you want to check out the full paper, it is available from the Federal Reserve.
We’re hopeful that a top academic journal will publish the paper. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Very impressive!
You are now an economist and you get top billing.
Oh the joy of having a name that is easily pronounced.
Reporters are much more confident calling someone named Jason than someone named Ugur (pronounced “or”). Guess I’ll have to remember to thank my parents for choosing an easy name!