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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

BOFIT Research Seminar (Update)

Truly honored to present our Monash Discussion Paper, written with Russell Smyth and Joaquin Vespignani, at the BOFIT (Bank of Finland) research seminar on Tuesday 29 April 2025 (Paris 9:30…

Post date April 23, 2025
Post categories In Conferences
Tags Bank of Korea, Exchange Rate Adjustment, Exchange Rate Intervention, Institutional Score, Political News, STATA Code

The Age of Depopulation?

In his recent article in Foreign Affairs, Nicholas Eberstadt explores the consequence of a world gone gray. Most of the country in the world already have sub-replacement fertility…

Post date January 4, 2025
Post categories In Illustrated, Opinion
Tags Claudia Goldin, Data Visualization, Depopulation, Fertility, Foreign Affairs, NBER, Nicholas Eberstadt

Machine Learning with Stata: What Drives Currency Crises?

This is my first-ever blog on Machine Learning! A major novelty in the latest version of Stata, Stata 19, is the implementation of Machine Learning. Today, I will…

Post date September 26, 2025
Post categories In Debates, Research Article, Working Paper
Tags Capital Account Openness (KAOPEN), Exchange‑rate Stability (ERS), Financial Development (FD), H2O, Machine Learning, Monetary Independence (MI), Random Forest, SHAP, STATA Code, Trilemma

Unbiased estimator for population variance: clearly explained!

Estimator: A statistic used to approximate a population parameter. Sometimes called a point estimator. Estimate: The observed value of the estimator. Unbiased estimator: An estimator whose expected value…

Post date July 15, 2020
Post categories In Pedagogical Note
Tags Probability, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator, Variance
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