After a first post on the conception of the scientific method by Richard Feynman, let us look at the following paper written paper by David…
NEW WORKING PAPER: This study investigates the impact of supply disruptions on financial leverage (debt-equity ratio) in the U.S. economy from 1998:Q1 to 2024:Q1. The…
NEW WORKING PAPER: Recent increasing partisan conflicts in the US strain the relationship between the US and China, leading to a decrease in oil demand…
In a recent article published in the Journal of econometrics, we have some further insights about the bias-variance trade-off between IRF (Impulse Response Function) produced…
I am happy and honored to announce that I am now a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum. Let me add that I hope…
1 Introduction This short note aims to demonstrate the drawing of choropleth maps at different regional levels thanks to Natural Earth Data and GADM data.…
Last Friday, I had the chance to welcome Joshua Aizenman for a research seminar at the University of Strasbourg: https://www.beta-economics.fr/. We had an interesting discussion…
11 years after my first position as an Associate Professor (maître de conférences) in Strasbourg. I am now a Full Professor of Economics (professeur des…
In the following working paper, we assess the relative resilience of emerging countries during US monetary cycles. One possible measure of resilience is the number…
Alfonso Ugarte Ruiz from BBVA research introduced the locproj package: s459204. The package is very useful, and I will show you how to customize the…
A good way to visualize panel data with Stata is to rely on the package panelview created and maintained by Yiqing Xu: Other possibilities include…
NEW WORKING PAPER: This research investigates the intricate dynamics between the catalytic effect of projects financed by international institutions and geopolitical interests. Through the construction…
Sometimes, you need to draw histograms using two variables, with one variable containing the frequencies. Using fictional data, I will show you, in some simple…
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…
A small update of the following blog if you want to remove Turkey:
After three blogs on how to draw maps with Stata for the NUTS regions and on how to download data from DBnomics, this time I…
After two blogs on how to draw maps with Stata for the NUTS regions and on how to download data from DBnomics, this time I…
NEW WORKING PAPER: How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we…
After a series of blogs on maps, today, I will show how to draw a map for the East Asian and Pacific Region, following the…
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,…
NEW WORKING PAPER: How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we…
Some materials for my lecture notes in Probability and Statistics are available on GitHub: https://github.com/. You will find the Mathematica notebooks and the PDF of…
Asjad Naqvi released a new version of the bimap package, let me show a small example of how this package works with some regional data…
After a series of blogs where I explained the functioning of the DBnomics package: https://www.jamelsaadaoui.com/?s=dbnomics I will show how to directly download the Vulnerability Index…
Truly honored to present our new NBER paper, written with Joshua Aizenman, Donghyun Park, Gazi Salah Uddin and Irfan Qureshi, at the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department…
In his last post, Cullen S. Hendrix from the PIIE proposed to measure friendliness and like-mindedness using mean absolute distance with the US for two…
I am now an Associate Editor of International Economics and Economic Policy: Springer. International Economics and Economic Policy publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to economic…
In terms of global oil demand, some believe it. In future years, India may become the new leader in terms of economic growth. Some structural…
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…
It is a delight to present our NBER paper, co-authored by Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, and Gazi Salah Uddin, in the…
After a previous post on mapping the Political Ties with Stata, let me show how to compute how to create an idea point relatively a…
Sometimes, you need to extract some countries when you are using a panel. The most simple way to proceed is to use a loop after…
NEW BOOK CHAPTER: This chapter looks at the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) at the world and regional levels, with a focus…
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…
“A rising tide floats all boats… Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” The role of institution quality may…
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…
Very honored to contribute my second guest blog post on Econbrowser, written this time, with William Ginn. I am deeply grateful to Menzie Chinn. Remarks and…
On Friday 29, I will participate in the French Japanese Webinar in Economics (FJWE) to present my paper: Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in…
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,…
NEW PUBLICATION: The paper adds to the literature on the issue of public debt in African economies, by investigating the role foreign exchange reserves play…
Elle est là ! La photo de la promo 2023-2024 du Master 1 Macroéconomie et Politiques Européennes. Un immense merci à Victor Dreyer pour l’initiative…
NEW WORKING PAPER: How do geopolitical risk shocks impact monetary policy? Based on a panel of 20 economies, we develop and estimate an augmented panel…
When I wanted to make some simple graphs on quantile regressions, I was quite surprised to not find a nice blog where each step is…
Let me draw your attention to this very useful inflation and interest tracker made by the Financial Times. It offers plenty of interactive visualizations per…
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…
Today, let me draw your attention to two recent papers published in the Journal of Econometrics that deal with the Local Projection (LP) method introduced…