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Post date November 29, 2024
Post categories In Press
Tags Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Monetary Cycles, NBER, PRS Group

Our NBER working paper has been cited on the website of Christopher McKee, PhD, the CEO of the PRS (Political Risk Services) Group.

Comments and remarks are welcome, as always.

Post date November 29, 2024
Post categories In Press
Tags Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Monetary Cycles, NBER, PRS Group

Dates and Times in Excel and in Stata

Usually in Statistics, time is a continuous quantitative variable that uses the interval scale when we are looking at dates (the ratio scale when we elaborate on duration,…

Post date December 26, 2023
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated, Pedagogical Note
Tags Data Visualization, Dates Conventions, Microsoft Excel, Recession, Sahm Rule, STATA Code
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Oil market uncertainty and geopolitical risks

After some insightful email exchanges with Lutz Kilian, I was wondering whether oil market uncertainty and geopolitical risk are related. To measure oil market uncertainty, I use the…

Post date January 19, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Conferences, Illustrated, Pedagogical Note, Research Article
Tags China, Nonlinear Correlation, Nonlinear Dynamics, OVX, STATA Code, US

The expansion of AI will likely shrink earnings inequality

In my second Vox EU column, written with David Bloom, Klaus Prettner, and Mario Veruete, you will learn about how AI may affect the wage skill premium: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/expansion-ai-will-likely-shrink-earnings-inequality…

Post date October 18, 2024
Post categories In Column, Research Article
Tags Artificial Intelligence, Automation, CEPR, ChatGPT, NBER, Productivity, Skill Premium, VoxEU, Wages

Do geopolitical risk shocks only have indirect effects on the oil price?

Last week, I noticed the publication of a new research in Energy Economics by Hakan Yilmazkuday: Geopolitical risks and energy uncertainty: Implications for global and domestic energy prices. Energy…

Post date November 3, 2024
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Pedagogical Note
Tags Data Visualization, Energy Economics, Energy uncertainty index, IRF, Local Projection, Oil market, STATA Code, SVAR

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