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That's actually very hard to answer. My
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name is Victor Reeses. I'm assistant
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professor of finance at Wharton. I'm
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originally from S. Paulo, Brazil, and I
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did my PhD in economics and statistics
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at MIT in Boston and moved to Philly
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last July. My research focus is on how
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financial and monetary policy affects
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the real activity in the economy. So,
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how can it affect the firm's behavior?
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How can affect the firm's employment
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decisions? And consequently, how can
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that affect economic outcomes like
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inflation, [music] GDP, and so on.
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Actually I'm very interested in
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combining what we can call big data with
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econometric and statistical methodology
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that we know about the mechanism but
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also how can we influence that. I think
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this is very important to bridge
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economic theory into like economic
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practice. I'm very excited to learn not
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only about my faculty colleagues but
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also from my students my [music] MBA
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students PhD students and future
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collaborations ideas that hasn't even
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started yet.
