The World Bank’s top 10 biggest debtors – fDi Intelligence

Post date June 3, 2025
Post categories In Illustrated
Tags Data Visualization, Debt, fDi Intelligence, World Bank

Allow me to share a very nice interactive map of World Bank’s top 10 biggest debtors: https://www.fdiintelligence.com/content/686944bf-3818-5791-9f76-b97856fb8607

Post date June 3, 2025
Post categories In Illustrated
Tags Data Visualization, Debt, fDi Intelligence, World Bank

Cold War 2.0?

The levels of Geopolitical Risks are now close to those of the Cold War, as mentioned by Cullen S. Hendrix in this PIIE chart: https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/2020s-mark-return-cold-war-levels-geopolitical-risk. What does it…

Post date January 26, 2024
Post categories In Ideas, Illustrated
Tags Data Visualization, Geopolitical Risks, PIIE

Brent-WTI spread

The Brent-WTI spread has known important evolutions after 2010. While it is well known by practitioners, market participants and academics, it may be useful to recall this point.…

Post date February 11, 2025
Post categories In Illustrated
Tags Brent-WTI spread, Data Visualization, Oil market, Oil Price

Using DBnomics to access subcomponent of ND GAIN scores

Let me show you how to use DBnomics to access a subcomponent of ND GAIN scores. I recommend you to consult my blog series on DBnomics before delving…

Post date January 3, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated, Pedagogical Note
Tags Data Management, Data Visualization, DBnomics, ND-GAIN, Panel Data, STATA Code, University of Notre Dame

Panel VAR with StataNow 18.5

In this blog, I will show how to estimate Panel VAR with the new command xtvar introduced in StataNow. The dataset comes from a paper of mine on…

Post date January 10, 2025
Post categories In Codes and Datasets, Illustrated
Tags Bond Yields, Climate Risk, Data Visualization, Fiscal Space, Institutional Quality, STATA Code, StataNow 18.5, xtvar

Are Consumer Sentiment Shocks State-Dependent?