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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

Drawing Maps for the Largest Cities in the World with Geoplot

Today, we will see how to draw maps with Stata for the largest cities in the world. I used geoplot with multiple frames and an orthographic projection. I…

Post date August 14, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Maps
Tags Austria, China, Data Management, Data Visualization, geoframe, geoplot, Maps, Natural Earth Data, Orthographic Projection (Azimuthal), spshape2dta, STATA Code

How to SVAR with Excel!

Allow me to share with this very nice blog by Felipe Camargo: https://fcamargo.substack.com/p/applied-linear-algebra-in-economics-0a7 He gives a very nice example on how to identify a shock in VAR model…

Post date March 29, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated
Tags Microsoft Excel, Monetary Policy, SVAR, Taylor Rule

Global Imbalances as an Early Warning Signal for Global Recessions

In a previous blog, I explain how to use the JDemetra+ Seasonal Adjustment with EViews: Today, we are going to use an updated dataset for the quarterly current…

Post date May 25, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated
Tags Current Account Balance, Data Visualization, Euro Crisis, Europe, Financial Openness, Global Recessions

Using addplot to make high-quality graph with Stata

For an ongoing project on economic recoveries with Joshua Aizenman, Hiro Ito, Donghyun Park, and Gazi Salah Uddin, I have to make a graph to explain how we…

Post date April 18, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated
Tags Data Visualization, External Conflict, Institutional Quality, NBER, Recovery, STATA Code, Trade restriction

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