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Economics Blogs – Robert Kirkby
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Macroeconomics (1st Year Undergraduate). Expectations, Bubbles, Crises and The Great Recession. I: GDP and Potential GDP. II: Changing Units (and multiple y-axes). V – Vintage Data and Forecast Updates. VI: Multiple Countries with a for-loop. VII: Stacking and Shading. Codes & Toolkits. Economics Research, mostly focused on Europe, but some general research. Focus on Spain (in Spanish; an English version exists for some posts). The Economist – Graphic Detail. Bob Solow articles on various topics.
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In Praise of Linear Models … – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. May 10, 2015. In Praise of Linear Models …. Have recent columns discussing the prevalence of linear methods in economics and in particular in macroeconomics. Noah gives a good description of the properties and benefits of linear models. Why am I so convinced that linear methods are a good way to proceed? Let me count the ways:. There are of course cases in which there is important non-linear behavior that needs to be featured in the results. For these ca...
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August 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. August 14, 2014. More Thoughts on the Welfare Consequences of Stimulus Spending. Noah Smith has a short post. Questioning the reasoning of an earlier post of mine about stimulus spending. He includes a short numerical example which I reproduce below. Here’s Noah:. In this case, the net social benefit of spending $100 building the bridge is $90 $110 – $100 = $100. And the net social benefit of spending $100 on a tax rebate is $110 – $100 = $10. Iv) In OPTION ...
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Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog: Code
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Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog. This page contains access to computer code that is referenced in my main blog. All EViews Program files and R files can be read with any text editor. 3 March 2011: The Origin of Our Species. For analyzing the AEA data; EViews workfile. For analyzing the ES data. 7 March 2011: Less is More. The Second-Longest Word in the Econometrics Dictionary -. Counting Flowers on the Wall. From C to Shining C. Anscombe's Data ( EViews workfile. Curious Data ( EViews workfile. 8 and...
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October 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. October 27, 2014. The Lure of Capital Taxation. The taxation of capital income corporate profits, capital gains, interest, dividends, etc. has always been attractive to both politicians and to economists. Economists are drawn to capital income taxation not because it is a good idea many (most? In the immediate wake of the higher tax, standard theory would predict that basically nothing would happen to production or employment (? The tension between long run ...
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Warren Buffet: Fighting Income Inequality with the EITC – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. May 26, 2015. Warren Buffet: Fighting Income Inequality with the EITC. Warren Buffet’s article in the Wall Street Journal. Reminds me of some posts. On fighting income inequality. His article contains a lot of wisdom. Some excerpts:. He writes that an expansion of the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. I agree entirely and so would Milton Friedman. There should be widespread publicity that workers can receive free and convenient filing help. An annual ...
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September 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. September 10, 2014. Feels Like it Was Yesterday. September 3, 2014. End of an Era. Judit typically played in the general tournaments she actually never competed for the women’s world championship. Over her career, she has defeated a slew of famous players including Magnus Carlsen (the current world #1 and current chess champion), Viswanathan Anand (the previous world #1), Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, the list goes on and on. [1]. Another fascinating aspect...
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Is Big Data the answer to all our problems? – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. August 2, 2015. Is Big Data the answer to all our problems? Noah Smith recently commented. On a Malcom Gladwell talk. In which he (Gladwell) expressed doubts about the promise of Big Data. When people use the term Big Data. Be better. (OK, there is the Snowden issue and government invasions of privacy more generally but let’s leave those problems aside I don’t think that kind of intrusive survelance is what either Gladwell or Noah has in mind). Very interest...
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