Sakai Ando

Last Updated: December 19, 2023

Sakai Ando

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.

Education:

2018 Ph.D. in Economics, Columbia University

2012 M.A. in Economics, Kyoto University

2010 B.A. in Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

IMF Books and Working Papers:

High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation: Shrinkage Toward a Diagonal Target , Working Paper No. 2023/257 , December 08, 2023

How Large is the Sovereign Greenium? , Working Paper No. 2023/080 , April 07, 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 08, 2022

Sovereign Climate Debt Instruments:An Overview of the Green and Catastrophe Bond Markets , Staff Climate Note No 2022/004 , July 07, 2022

Systematizing Macroframework Forecasting: High-Dimensional Conditional Forecasting with Accounting Identities , Working Paper No. 2022/110 , June 03, 2022

European Labor Markets and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fallout and the Path Ahead , March 03, 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. 20/155 , August 07, 2020

Do FDI Firms Employ More Workers than Domestic Firms for Each Dollar of Assets? , Working Paper No. 20/56 , March 13, 2020

International Financial Connection and Stock Return Comovement , Working Paper No. 19/181 , August 22, 2019

Indexing Structural Distortion: Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth , Working Paper No. 17/205 , September 19, 2017

Sakai Ando

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.

Education:

2018 Ph.D. in Economics, Columbia University

2012 M.A. in Economics, Kyoto University

2010 B.A. in Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

IMF Books and Working Papers:

High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation: Shrinkage Toward a Diagonal Target , Working Paper No. 2023/257 , December 08, 2023

How Large is the Sovereign Greenium? , Working Paper No. 2023/080 , April 07, 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 08, 2022

Sovereign Climate Debt Instruments:An Overview of the Green and Catastrophe Bond Markets , Staff Climate Note No 2022/004 , July 07, 2022

Systematizing Macroframework Forecasting: High-Dimensional Conditional Forecasting with Accounting Identities , Working Paper No. 2022/110 , June 03, 2022

European Labor Markets and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fallout and the Path Ahead , March 03, 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. 20/155 , August 07, 2020

Do FDI Firms Employ More Workers than Domestic Firms for Each Dollar of Assets? , Working Paper No. 20/56 , March 13, 2020

International Financial Connection and Stock Return Comovement , Working Paper No. 19/181 , August 22, 2019

Indexing Structural Distortion: Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth , Working Paper No. 17/205 , September 19, 2017