Tag: R Code

Local and Anglosphere-Based Geopolitical Risk and Sovereign Stress in the Euro Area (Finance Research Letters)

NEW PUBLICATION: Is Geopolitical Risk (GPR) detrimental to sovereign stress in the Euro Area (EA)? We address this question by estimating the dynamic effects of GPR shocks—originating either…

Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Financial Leverage (International Review of Financial Analysis)

NEW PUBLICATION: 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 study employs a linear…

Do Supply Chain Disruptions Matter for Global Economic Conditions?

NEW WORKING PAPER: The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath exposed the vulnerabilities of global supply chains, leading to widespread delays and shortages that highlighted the interconnectedness of economies.…

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…