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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

Does Macroeconomics Need Microfoundations?

The representative-agent in macroeconomics analyzes the gas as if there is one big molecule subject to the law that governs real molecules. Kevin D. Hoover (2007). Are only…

Post date December 28, 2020
Post categories In Book
Tags Epistemology, Kevin Douglas Hoover, Macroeconomics, Microfoundations, Philosophy
1 Comment on Does Macroeconomics Need Microfoundations?

How to Identify Bilateral Geopolitical Cycles?

In previous research of mine, I proposed a simple and efficient method to identify what I called the geopolitical turning points — unexpected change in bilateral geopolitical relationships.…

Post date October 27, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Ideas, Illustrated
Tags China, Data Visualization, Geopolitical Cycle, Geopolitical Turning Point, NBER, STATA Code

Using ChatGPT within Stata

After this new Stata blog was released, I wanted to experiment a little with two of my latest blogs on Stata. If you have already installed Python on…

Post date October 8, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated
Tags ChatGPT, Data Visualization, STATA Code

Explaining the Infrastructure Vulnerability Score for the Russia Federation

After a first blog on how to visualize the ND-GAIN vulnerability scores, I was keen to explore the sub-categories of the vulnerability scores. Among them, I was particularly…

Post date May 10, 2024
Post categories In Illustrated, Maps, Pedagogical Note
Tags Energy Economics, Heatplot, Infrastructure, ND-GAIN, Resilience, Vulnerability
1 Comment on Explaining the Infrastructure Vulnerability Score for the Russia Federation

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