Gita Gopinath ✓

@GitaGopinath · Cambridge, MA, USA · joined 20 Nov 2019

Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Previously IMF First Deputy Managing Director (2022-2025) & Chief Economist (2019-2022).

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Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

Thanks @Brad_Setser. Your work on estimating the true size of China's current account surplus is thoughtful and helpful. Agree that there are important measurement issues and the income balance of China seems badly off. No disagreement here. The question is how does the measure 58.7K views · 211 likes · 41 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

@GitaGopinath Dr. Gopinath, as I think you remember, there are concerns that China's reported current account surplus -- which has deviated significantly from the customs surplus net of visible services (tourism) over the last 5 years -- is understated 1/4 58.1K views · 39 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

@GitaGopinath Your S-I relation assumes money is exogenous and banks don't exist? 983 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

@GitaGopinath As a matter of practice a currency can remain unhinged from a sortakinda intrinsic value for multiple decades. That said, the current surge of pipe dreams is buttressed on the previous success. For over a decade prior to the Plaza Accord, Yen had been a full float 2.3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

At the Jackson Hole symposium @WenxinDu busts three myths about payment innovation. She concludes that: (1) 24/7 atomic real-time gross settlement is unlikely to be the future of wholesale payments. (2) retail payment frictions are not simply a technology problem. (3) https://t.

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Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath30 Aug

I won't re-list my disagreements but maybe there are some who wish to know how estimates of "undervaluation" are constructed so they can form their own view on the right policy response. According to this piece, the renminbi is undervalued by 35%. I have not seen how this is 99K views · 384 likes · 79 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath28 Aug

We need a new Plaza Accord, to revalue the yuan. China's exploding trade surplus hurts everyone else, but it ignores pleas to pivot from exports to consumption. A yuan revaluation, backed w/threat of tariffs, may be the only solution. My latest: https://t.co/grZU8EvnmM 579.7K views · 611 likes · 159 reposts · 328 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath28 Aug

I very much enjoyed my Lunch with the @FT with @senoj_erialc. Among other things, I got to talk about the Global Economics Lab we are setting up at Harvard with fantastic affiliates from across universities. https://t.co/dFK3kiz3Lb 23.5K views · 233 likes · 27 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Gita Gopinath ✓@GitaGopinath19 Aug

I found the piece on @DAcemogluMIT by @TheEconomist very odd. Reminded me of the Monty Python scene "What have the Romans every done for us?" A substantive critique of a particular piece of work may have given us more to discuss. Daron can handle it (as he has in the past). I 49.1K views · 360 likes · 67 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

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Reach, %14.23%this account1.74%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.47%this account1.27%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	58 107	4 827	12.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	14.23%	1.74%	8.18×
Engagement rate	0.47%	1.27%	0.36×

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