Category: Press
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BigQuery with GDELT
After two blogs on how to start with GDELT data, I will show how to construct a histogram of bilateral Goldstein score for bilateral events between…
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Is India the new China?
in PressIn terms of global oil demand, some believe it. In future years, India may become the new leader in terms of economic growth. Some structural features…
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API with GDELT data at the regional level
Did you know that you can use an API to display instability scores computed from GDELT data? Below, an example for the French region (first administrative…
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Starting with GDELT data
When you are interested in geopolitical risks, up to some point you will heard about the GDELT project: https://www.gdeltproject.org Here, the brief description on their website:…
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Timelines, they are so important
In these uncertain times when history and geopolitics are of utmost importance for economics, let me draw your attention to this website with very nice timelines:…
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Geopolitical risk and oil prices: When refining capacities are targeted
As we recall in a recent article, written with Valérie Mignon, oil production facilities may be military objectives during a war or a conflict: Mignon, V.,…
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Global inflation and interest rates tracker
in PressLet me draw your attention to this very useful inflation and interest tracker made by the Financial Times. It offers plenty of interactive visualizations per country…
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Currency fluctuations in emerging countries since the end of 2021
Last week, I saw this picture in a post written by Ziad Daoud, the Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. It would be interesting to explore…
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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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Reserve judgment by The Economist
in PressOur recent research, written with Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman, and Gazi Salah Uddin, on the mitigating effect of foreign exchange reserves during the 2021-22 U.S. monetary…