James Creedy Smith

Welcome!

I'm a young economist and analyst, interested in the macroeconomy, geopolitics and financial markets.

My CV provides the detail about my experience, interests and accomplishments.

The TLDR version: having gotten a taste for a range of problems from both my studies in Amsterdam and working for a policy consultancy in London, I realised that I couldn't look past economics as my core interest. Taking that seriously, I knew I needed a postgraduate qualification and completed a master's in economics and finance. Influenced by my dissertation supervisor Michele Piffer, I leant towards empirical macro, macro policy and forecasting. At the same time, the programme had a heavy quantitative finance component and the hours spent modelling asset returns stuck with me.

The end result of all this is that I step into the job market with a strong interest in macro (both economics and politics), markets and quantitative modelling.

This site is here to give an introduction to who I am. It also keeps a bit of a record of what I am reading/building/working on. I found myself spending a lot of time either reading on a topic, organising what I've read into notes or playing around with different models that I try and build. I figured a slightly more formal way of documenting this could be a good thing (perhaps for my own benefit and retention as much as anything else.)