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Sakai Ando is an economist at the IMF. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Email: SANDO@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/sakaiando/
Fluent In: Chinese, Japanese.
A Python Package to Assist Macroframework Forecasting: Concepts and Examples, Working Paper No. 2025/172 , August 29, 2025
Smooth Forecast Reconciliation, Working Paper No. 2024/066 , March 22, 2024
High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation: Shrinkage Toward a Diagonal Target, Working Paper No. 2023/257 , December 8, 2023
How Large is the Sovereign Greenium?, Working Paper No. 2023/080 , April 7, 2023
Debt Mutualization in the Euro Area: A Quantitative Exploration, Working Paper No. 2023/059 , March 17, 2023
An Alternative Proof of Minimum Trace Reconciliation, Working Paper No. 2022/136 , July 8, 2022
Sovereign Climate Debt Instruments: An Overview of the Green and Catastrophe Bond Markets, Staff Climate Note No 2022/004 , July 7, 2022
Systematizing Macroframework Forecasting: High-Dimensional Conditional Forecasting with Accounting Identities, Working Paper No. 2022/110 , June 3, 2022
European Labor Markets and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fallout and the Path Ahead, Departmental Paper No 2022/004 , March 3, 2022
Watch What They Do, Not What They Say: Estimating Regulatory Costs from Revealed Preferences, Working Paper No. 2022/041 , February 25, 2022
Reserve Currencies in an Evolving International Monetary System, Departmental Paper No 2020/002 , November 17, 2020
Productivity in the Netherlands, Working Paper No. 2020/155 , August 7, 2020
Do FDI Firms Employ More Workers than Domestic Firms for Each Dollar of Assets?, Working Paper No. 2020/056 , March 13, 2020
International Financial Connection and Stock Return Comovement, Working Paper No. 2019/181 , August 22, 2019
Indexing Structural Distortion: Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth, Working Paper No. 2017/205 , September 19, 2017
