Tag: Data Visualization

US-China Tensions, US Partisan Conflict and Global Oil Prices: Scapegoating? (Applied Economics Letters)

NEW PUBLICATION: This study examines the relationship between US-China tensions, US partisan conflict, and global oil prices over the past 20 years. Using lag-augmented local projections and time-varying local…

How Robust Is the Link Between Growth and Fiscal Consolidations Under Global Uncertainties? A Reassessment for Sub-Saharan Africa (Finance Research Letters)

NEW PUBLICATION: We revisit the relationship between fiscal tightening and economic growth within the Sub-Saharan African context, employing a local projection framework augmented with instruments. In contrast to…

Climate Vulnerability, Fiscal Risk, and Religious Tensions: Evidence from 100 Countries!

In our recent update working paper, Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Fiscal Risk: Do Political Stability and Financial Development Matter?, written with John Beirne, Donghyun Park, and Gazi…

Tin is enjoying a boom

Allow me to share this piece by The Economist about Tin, a critical mineral that is enjoying a boom: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/03/tin-an-overlooked-critical-metal-is-enjoying-a-boom They also underline that Tin has a small…

A visual guide to critical materials and rare earths

Allow me to share this very nice visual guide to critical materials and rare earths made by The Economist: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/03/24/a-visual-guide-to-critical-materials-and-rare-earths They did a fantastic job and provide the…

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,…

Customizing LP impulse response function after LOCPROJ using LPGRAPH

In a few days, Alfonso Ugarte from BBVA will release an updated version of his package LOCPROJ. In this new version, the LPGRAPH command has been greatly improved…

Critical Minerals Data Explorer

In a recent publication in Energy Economics, we found that geopolitical risk will drive up the price of several critical minerals, especially during episodes of heightened geopolitical tensions.…

How Can Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) Countries Get Back on the Fast Track?

In my second SUERF policy brief, written with Joshua Aizenman, you will learn about how CESEE countries get back to the fast track: https://www.suerf.org/publications/suerf-policy-notes-and-briefs/how-can-central-eastern-and-southeastern-europe-cesee-countries-get-back-on-the-fast-track Our empirical results identify…

Impact of Climate Risk on Fiscal Space: Do Political Stability and Financial Development Matter?

Allow me to share that I published my second working paper for the Asian Development Bank: Impact of Climate Risk on Fiscal Space: Do Political Stability and Financial…

Guest Contribution: “Impact of Climate Risk on Fiscal Space: Does Political Stability and Financial Development Matter?”

Very honored to contribute my fourth guest blog post on Econbrowser. I am deeply grateful to Menzie Chinn. The recent literature establishes that climate risk reduces the fiscal space,…

Impact of Climate Risk on Fiscal Space: Do Religious Tensions Matter?

In our new working paper, written with John Beirne, Donghyun Park, and Gazi Salah Uddin, we find that political stability together with financial development matter for the negative…

Currency compositions of international reserves – recent developments

The Bank of Finland just released a policy brief introducing a new database on the composition of international reserves: https://publications.bof.fi/handle/10024/53793 The authors are Falk Laser, Alexander Mihailov, and…

Long series for Central bank total assets from the BIS

The Bank for International Settlements has produced a formidable effort to construct historical series for central bank total assets. The data and the methodology are available on their…

Leçon doctorale Ă  l’Ă©cole doctorale Augustin Cournot (ED 221) — UniversitĂ© de Strasbourg

Le lundi 12 fĂ©vrier prochain, j’aurai le grand plaisir d’animer une leçon doctorale Ă  l’Ă©cole doctorale Augustin Cournot (ED 221) — UniversitĂ© de Strasbourg. Risques gĂ©opolitiques, tensions politiques…

Illustrating the sample variance bias with R and Mathematica

In my previous blog, I recall that we can demonstrate in a few steps that the sample variance is an unbiased estimator of the population variance when we…