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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

Cargo Cult Science by Feynman

What is science? Science is above all a method aimed at discovering the truth. In a previous post of mine, I recommended a YouTube video capturing a lesson…

Post date August 16, 2024
Post categories In Ideas
Tags Cargo Cult Science, Experiment, Richard Feynman, Science, Scientific Method

Freed from unit roots: democracy and economic freedom

China will move increasingly toward political freedom if it continues its successful movement for economic freedom. — Milton Friedman in 2003. Milton Friedman was a giant of economics,…

Post date March 2, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Debates
Tags Data Visualization, Democracy, Economic Freedom, Financial Institutions, Kernel regressions, Primacy of Institutions, STATA Code, Transition of Institutions, Varieties of Democracy Institute

The “Wandel durch handel” era is now finished for Germany

The “Wandel durch handel” era is now finished. Basically, the WdH (abbreviation of Wandel durch handel) doctrine means change through trade was the backbone of German foreign policy…

Post date December 12, 2024
Post categories In Opinion, Pedagogical Note
Tags Finance, Financial Institutions, Free Trade, Germany, Institutions, Project Syndicate, Resilience, Wandel durch handel

Kernel regressions with Stata

As some of you may know, I have growing interests in the field of Political Economy. It appeared that the set of explained variables that I studied in…

Post date August 18, 2024
Post categories In Book, Codes and Datasets
Tags Data Visualization, Financial Institutions, Kernel regressions, Primacy of Institutions, STATA Code, Transition of Institutions

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