Professor Kanda Naknoi had a very busy month of May.

From May 19-23, Professor Naknoi visited the St. Louis Fed as a visiting scholar. During her visit she collaborated her research with YiLi Chien, who is a senior economist at the Fed. The research project is on the impact of household finance on exchange rate volatility. The project is also joint with Hanno Lustig at UCLA.

Then, on May 31st, Professor Naknoi was in Vancouver at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economic Association, where she made a presentation. The title of her presentation is “Exchange Rate Disconnect and External Finance: Firm-Level Evidence.” The research paper is joint with Kwan Yong Lee at the University of North Dakota.

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