Archive
2023
December
- December 29, 2023 » Usage shares of programming languages in economics research
March
January
- January 23, 2023 » Finding Economic Articles with Data und Stata Reproductions
- January 10, 2023 » RTutor: Public Infrastructure Spending and Voting Behaviour
2022
October
- October 21, 2022 » RTutor: Political Incentives and River Pollution in China
September
- September 7, 2022 » How strongly does German electricity demand react to high prices?
- September 2, 2022 » Electricity markets: Can the EU deal with forward hedging when taxing infra-marginal profits?
August
- August 29, 2022 » A proposal for capping exploding electricity spot market prices without subsidies or supply reduction
- August 27, 2022 » Natural Gas Prices for main Hubs in Europe, Asia, and US
- August 23, 2022 » Exploding German Electricity Prices: Some Time Series
April
- April 26, 2022 » Mozart's Emotions and Creativity: Statistical Analysis of Composers' Letters and Output.
- April 6, 2022 » Finding Economic Articles with Data: Now with URL Parameters
March
- March 24, 2022 » EU's Natural Gas Imports from Russia. Numbers and Thoughts.
January
- January 26, 2022 » Riddle: Estimate effect of x on y if you only have two noisy measures of x.
- January 14, 2022 » RTutor: Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior
2021
November
- November 23, 2021 » RTutor: What explains the employment drop in the great recession 2007-2009?
October
- October 20, 2021 » Visually assessing the parallel trends assumption for DID estimation with control variables
- October 12, 2021 » RTutor: Does Bank Lending Increase Before Elections?
September
- September 27, 2021 » Post election update: Will the German parliament have a gigantic size?
- September 24, 2021 » Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge...
- September 16, 2021 » RTutor: Insurance and the Church
August
- August 18, 2021 » RTutor: Exploring Economic Impacts of COVID-19
May
- May 19, 2021 » xglue: Extended string interpolation for customized Latex tables and more.
- May 7, 2021 » Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents? I don't think it's a good idea...
March
- March 22, 2021 » Detailed Current Data on the Economic Impact of Covid-19
- March 16, 2021 » SQLite is great for R and Shiny. The dbmisc package may help a bit.
February
- February 23, 2021 » Empirical Economics with R (Part D): Instrumental Variable Estimation and Potential Outcomes
- February 15, 2021 » EU Vaccine Procurement and a Public Goods Dilemma
- February 2, 2021 » Shiny without Shiny: RTutor in RStudio's new Visual Markdown Mode
January
- January 27, 2021 » Empirical Economics with R (Part C): Difference-in-Differences and Search Engine Marketing
- January 19, 2021 » Estimating the probability that a vaccinated person still infects others with Covid-19
- January 18, 2021 » Empirical Economics with R (Part B): Confounders, Proxies and Sources of Exogenous Variations
- January 14, 2021 » Empirical Economics with R (Part B): Confounders, Proxies and Sources of Exogenous Variations
- January 9, 2021 » Empirical Economics with R (Part A): The wine formula and machine learning
- January 5, 2021 » Finding Economic Articles with Data and Specific Empirical Methods
2020
December
- December 15, 2020 » How many Covid cases and deaths did UK's fast vaccine authorization prevent?
- December 11, 2020 » A quiz about a 95% CI interpretation in the FDA Covid vaccine meeting
- December 6, 2020 » What to do if a package you need is no longer on CRAN?
November
- November 24, 2020 » Reverse Engineering AstraZeneca's Vaccine Trial Press Release
- November 24, 2020 » To peek or not to peek after 32 cases? Exploring that question in Biontech/Pfizer's vaccine trial
- November 16, 2020 » More on Biontech/Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine trial: Adjusting for interim testing in the Bayesian analysis
- November 11, 2020 » A look at Biontech/Pfizer's Bayesian analysis of their Covid-19 vaccine trial
- November 10, 2020 » About confidence intervals for the Biontech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine candidate
October
- October 8, 2020 » RTutor: How do competition policy and industrial policy affect economic development?
September
- September 22, 2020 » RTutor: The Causal Effects of Sweden's CO2 Tax
- September 14, 2020 » Lasso and the Methods of Causality
- September 8, 2020 » Solving Interactive R Exercises: RStudio Editor vs Shiny Web Interface
August
- August 31, 2020 » An Interesting Aspect of the Omitted Variable Bias
July
- July 14, 2020 » RTutor: Quantifying Social Spillovers in Movie Ticket Sales
- July 6, 2020 » RTutor: How much less effective are publicly assigned lawyers?
- July 1, 2020 » Puzzling Regression Anatomy
June
- June 25, 2020 » Finding Economic Articles with Data (2nd Update)
- June 10, 2020 » Market Analysis Course (Interactive, Free, and with a lot of R)
May
March
- March 25, 2020 » Data Science Courses for Economists and Epidemiologists using RTutor
- March 5, 2020 » A shiny quiz app about the Russian influence campaign before the 2016 US elections
- March 2, 2020 » Analyzing Relational Contracts with R: Part 2
February
- February 5, 2020 » Please, somebody create an ETF that buys EU CO2 emission allowances! I'd like the gamble to earn money by fighting climate change.
January
- January 14, 2020 » Exploring the tightened EU CO2 emission standards for cars in 2020 - Why now selling an electric car can be worth an extra 18000€ for producers.
- January 9, 2020 » glueformula: simply build regression formulas from vectors with variable names
2019
December
- December 17, 2019 » Exploring EU wide data on new car registrations and CO2 efficiency
- December 10, 2019 » Analyzing Relational Contracts with R: Part I
October
- October 3, 2019 » RStudio Addin: Replace in Files
September
- September 4, 2019 » Game theory in R with the new gtree package
August
- August 5, 2019 » RTutor: Improving Interactive Problem Sets by Analyzing Submissions
June
- June 30, 2019 » Update: Finding Economic Articles With Data
April
March
- March 13, 2019 » An Interesting Subtlety of Statistics: The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy
February
- February 21, 2019 » Finding Economic Articles With Data
2018
December
- December 13, 2018 » RTutor: Better Incentive Contracts For Road Construction
November
- November 21, 2018 » RTutor: Driving Electric or Gasoline Cars? Comparing the Pollution Damages
October
- October 29, 2018 » About a Curious Feature and Interpretation of Linear Regressions
June
- June 4, 2018 » Interactive RTutor Problemsets via RStudio Cloud
April
- April 9, 2018 » P-Values, Sample Size and Data Mining
- April 3, 2018 » Data on energy consumption and CO2 emissions
March
- March 8, 2018 » Some Tools for Writing Shiny Apps
2017
December
- December 4, 2017 » RTutor: Water Pollution and Cancer
November
- November 1, 2017 » RTutor: Wall Street and the Housing Bubble
October
- October 23, 2017 » Economic time series data quiz as a shiny app for mobile phones
- October 20, 2017 » RTutor: Pollution Reduction by Wind Energy
June
- June 22, 2017 » RTutor: Emission Certificates and Green Innovation
- June 3, 2017 » RTutor: The effect of the TseTse fly on African Development
2016
December
- December 12, 2016 » RTutor: Poverty Reduction and Deforestation
November
- November 3, 2016 » RTutor: CO2 Trading and Risk of Firm Relocation
October
- October 11, 2016 » RTutor: The effect of air pollution on house prices
May
- May 19, 2016 » RTutor: Free Trade Agreements
April
- April 15, 2016 » RTutor: Technological Progress and Fuel Economy of Cars
2015
December
- December 18, 2015 » RTutor: Public Procurement Auctions: Design, Outcomes and Adaption Costs
August
- August 21, 2015 » RTutor: How Soap Operas Reduced Fertility in Brazil
July
- July 9, 2015 » RTutor: Credit Booms Gone Bust
February
- February 16, 2015 » RTutor Kicks Off: An Interactive R Problem Set about Top Income Taxation
- February 15, 2015 » Debugging with restore points instead of break points
January
- January 15, 2015 » shinyEvents: build shiny apps with event handlers