Author: Jamel Saadaoui
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The best of EconMacro on Medium
Happy to announce that I now have a Medium page: https://medium.com/@jamelsaadaoui, where I will make a selection of my best blogs on EconMacro. These blogs will…
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Corvinus Research Seminar
in ConferencesYesterday, I went to Corvinus University to present my paper: How do political tensions and geopolitical risks impact oil prices?, co-authored with Valérie Mignon, in the…
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On the use of Chinese renminbi in international trade
During the 16th FIW conference, I had the chance to attend the policy panel on the “Tectonic shifts in the international economic order”. Giorgia Giovannetti gave…
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NUTS Data with DBnomics
Let me show you how to use DBnomics to build databases at the NUTS 0, NUTS 1, NUTS 2 levels. I recommend you to consult my…
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Panel Data with DBnomics
What if I told you that you can build a panel dataset of 3 variables for almost 200 countries and around 60 years in less than…
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Some wisdom about supervised machine learning
During the 4th Italian Workshop of Econometrics and Empirical Economics: “Climate and Energy Econometrics”, I had the chance to attend to the presentation of Giovanni Cerulli’s…
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Cold War 2.0?
The levels of Geopolitical Risks are now close to those of the Cold War, as mentioned by Cullen S. Hendrix in this PIIE chart: https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/2020s-mark-return-cold-war-levels-geopolitical-risk. What…
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Reshape faster… much faster
As mentioned in the last Stata News 39-1, the reshape command is now faster, much faster. For an ongoing project, I had to reshape daily data…
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Leçon doctorale à l’école doctorale Augustin Cournot (ED 221) — Université de Strasbourg
Le lundi 12 février prochain, j’aurai le grand plaisir d’animer une leçon doctorale à l’école doctorale Augustin Cournot (ED 221) — Université de Strasbourg. Risques géopolitiques,…
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Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in the Era of Financial Integration (Journal of International Money and Finance)
NEW PUBLICATION: The global financial crisis has brought increased attention to the consequences of international reserves holdings. In an era of high financial integration, we investigate…
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Using labmask for better graphs in Stata
In his last book, La Défaite de l’Occident, Emmanuel Todd, a French historian and demographer, argues that the infant morality rate is higher in the US…
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Adding shaded areas for NBER recessions with Stata
Today, I will show how to add shaded areas for NBER recession dates with Stata. I begin by importing the data of the Sahm Rule with…
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Drawing Maps with GADM data
After a series of blogs on Maps, I will show how to use GADM data to draw maps for Austria at 4 different administrative levels. I…
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Most viewed posts of 2023
Happy new year to all of you. I hope that this new year will be great and that a few of my most viewed posts will…
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Drawing Maps for Political Ties with Stata
Today, I will build on my previous blogs to show you how to draw a map of United Nations General Assembly Voting Data with Stata (see…
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Descriptive Statistics by Country in Panel Data with Stata
In this blog, I will show you how to compute descriptive statistics by country in a panel data thanks to the Stata command putexcel in a…
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From panel data to time series with Stata [Updated]
In this blog, I will show you that it is simple to switch back and forth between panel data and time series with the Stata command…
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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…
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Not all recessions are created equal — Pandemic edition
Let me draw your attention to this piece written by Tomasz Wieladek for The Economist: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/12/11/tomasz-wieladek-has-an-explanation-for-recent-macroeconomic-puzzles In this piece, Tomasz Wieladek argues that the pandemic recession…
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Drawing Maps for the Chinese regions with Stata [Updated with Geoplot]
The most complete blog of mine on maps with Stata. I used spmap, grmap, geoplot with one frame and multiple frames. Other examples are given for…
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Drawing Maps with Stata… Again and Again!
Today, I will build on my two previous blogs to show you how to use an alternative projection for the maps. Indeed, you need a projection…
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Drawing Maps with Stata… Again!
Today, I will build on my previous blog to show you how to merge two macroeconomic series, draw maps and think about some correlations in three…
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Drawing Maps with Stata for Africa
Using maps can be a good way to visualize the spatial dispersion of the data. I made a series of blogs on drawing maps on Stata…
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Buffer effects of international reserves holding in Africa
NEW WORKING PAPER: The paper adds to the literature on the issue of public debt in African economies, by investigating the role foreign exchange reserves play…
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Illustrating the consequences of modeling common factors with Stata [Updated with xtdcce2]
This post has been inspired by a fascinating discussion with Hiro Ito, Eric Clower and Kamila Kuziemska-Pawlak. In an old paper of mine (j.econmod.2015.02.007) written in…
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Types of Uncertainty
in IdeasNowadays, we are talking a lot about uncertainty. It could be interesting to draw your attention to this article, that I mentioned in an older post:…
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Pourquoi les économies émergentes détiennent-elles autant de réserves de change à l’ère de l’intégration financière ?
J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer ma première note de blog sur le site l’AFSE concernant la détention des réserves de change. Dans laquelle, nous tentons…
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Fifth ERMEES Macroeconomics Workshop 2023: The EU in the Age of Permacrisis
in WorkshopLast Friday, we organized the Fifth ERMEES workshop with Amélie Barbier-Gauchard and Pierre Lesuisse, together will all the ERMEES team. It was very pleasant to see…
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How do political tensions and geopolitical risks impact oil prices? (Energy Economics)
NEW PUBLICATION: This paper assesses the effect of US–China political relationships and geopolitical risks on oil prices. To this end, we consider two quantitative measures, the Political Relationship…
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Some basic economics of AI
After a first blog presenting our paper on Artificial Intelligence and a second one presenting the Mathematica notebook that explains step-by-step the calculations. Let me draw…
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Denton’s method with Stata
In this blog, you will learn to use the Denton method with Stata to interpolate a series to a higher frequency. I will show you a…
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CEPN Research Seminar
in ConferencesNearly a decade after presenting my doctoral dissertation, it is a delight to attend my former university and present our NBER paper, co-authored by Joshua Aizenman,…
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Artificial intelligence and the skill premium – Wolfram Community
The companion notebook for our paper has been selected into the Staff Picks into the Wolfram community blog: community.wolfram.com. This notebook aims to replicate all the…
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LÉO Research Seminar
in ConferencesTruly honored to present our NBER paper, written with Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh and Gazi Salah Uddin, at the LÉO (University of Orléans) research seminar: www.nber.org…
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Some stabilizing properties of international reserves
In my first Vox EU column, written with Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh and Gazi Salah Uddin, you will learn about some stabilizing…
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A friend of a rival is a rival
NEW PUBLICATION: This paper employs structural vector autoregression and local projection methods to examine the impacts of the deterioration in US-China political relations on Australia-China bilateral…
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Artificial intelligence and the skill premium
NEW WORKING PAPER: What will likely be the effect of the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) on the skill premium? To…
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Introduction gratuite à Stata
Stata 18 est sorti en avril, j’aurai le plaisir d’animer un webinaire pour Timberlake. Ce webinaire présentera trois nouvelles commandes très prisées des utilisateurs : Nous…
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Do FX reserves promote monetary autonomy in the presence of global spillovers?
NEW PUBLICATION: This paper examines whether the size of foreign exchange (FX) reserves can explain cross-country differences in foreign currency depreciation observed over the 2021-22 Federal…
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Built a website using GitHub pages
Thanks to the wonderful guidance of Hashir Shoaib (hashirshoaeb), I finally manage to use GitHub pages to built a portfolio for my recent projects jamelsaadaoui.github.io/ Feel…
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Heterogeneous Difference-in-Differences with Stata
A few days ago, I assisted to wonderful presentation by Di Liu of StataCorp LLC. His explanations were crystal clear about the difference-in-difference commands introduced in…
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Data Visualisation and Causal Analysis with SVAR and LP models
I will give my first training session for Timberlake, the 26th October 2023 at 9 – 11 am BST / 10 – 12 pm CEST: www.timberlake.co.uk…
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Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past
Today, let me draw your attention to this very interesting JEL article. It provides a superb overview of macroeconomic research during the last 40 years. As…
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Natural Resources Economics with Mathematica
Today, let me draw your attention to a very interesting book: Natural Resource Economics. Analysis, Theory, and Applications by Jon M. Conrad, Cornell University, New York, Daniel Rondeau, University…
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Estimating a nonlinear DSGE model with Stata
Today, I will show how to estimate a DSGE model with Stata in a few steps. The model consists of 8 equations and is a variant…
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Sign and Narrative Restrictions in SVAR with Stata
Today I will present you VAR_NR, a Stata module to estimate set identified Structural VAR. This toolbox has been provided by Abigail Kuchek, Jonah Danziger and Christoffer Koch.…
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How to use the Wolfram Language in a Jupyter Notebook (100th blog)
It is my 100th blog on EconMacro! I tried to provide some tips to access to knowledge all along these blogs. The idea is to try…
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Visualizing an interaction with Mathematica and Python
After first blogs on how to launch Stata and visualize high-frequency data in a Jupyter Notebook. In the following example, you will first see that Mathematica…
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Guest Contribution in Econbrowser: “How Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices”
Very honored to contribute my first guest blog post on Econbrowser. I am deeply grateful to Menzie Chinn. Remarks and comments are welcome, as always: https://econbrowser.com/