Author: Economics and R - R posts

My shiny app Finding Economics Articles with Data contains meanwhile over 8000 economic articles with replication packages. You can use it here: https://ejd.econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de Some of the data on articles and...continue reading.

If you seek empirical economic studies that can be replicated, try my Shiny-based search app: https://ejd.econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de The last couple of days, I was quite excited to explore the fantastic OpenAI...continue reading.

If you’re looking for reproducible empirical economic studies, check out my Shiny-powered search app at https://ejd.econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Recently the server was sometimes off-line, but most of the time you can use...continue reading.

While I am no expert in political economy, it seems intuitive that voters are happy if their representatives manage to provide federal money for local investment projects. But how large...continue reading.

River pollution in China tended to substantially increase at the border of an upstream province, which means the harm was mainly born by the neighboring downstream province. A classic case...continue reading.

The discussion on how to deal with exploding European electricity prices takes on steam. Recent ideas of the EU and similar proposals by the German government do not directly attempt...continue reading.

In a leaked first draft the EU proposes in its own words a Price cap for inframarginal technologies for the benefit of consumers Sounds similar to my recent proposal. A...continue reading.

At the EEX, German baseload electricity futures for the year 2023 trade at a price of 950 Euro / MWh and peak load futures at 1275 Euro / MWh. Future...continue reading.

Are spot market natural gas prices in Europe mainly determined by the available world-wide LNG supply or does a bottleneck in the number of usable European LNG terminals increase prices...continue reading.

German wholesale electricity prices in August 2022 are extremely high with an average of 397 Euro / MWh (EPEX day ahead prices until 19th of August). That is more than...continue reading.

How did changes in life and emotional states affect the creativity and output of the great composers Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt? (Yeah, 3 composers are studied but Mozart seems to...continue reading.

If you want to find reproducible empirical economic studies that are about some specific topic or that use some specific method, you can take a look at my shiny-powered app...continue reading.

Putin’s brutal attack on Ukraine is horrifying in many dimensions. The western world reacted with economic sanctions on Russia, which seem to have strong effects mainly by limiting Russia’s imports...continue reading.

Consider the following data generating process: set.seed(1) n = 100000 x = rnorm(n) eta1 = rnorm(n) # measurement error1 noisy1 = x + eta1 eta2 = rnorm(n) # measurement error2...continue reading.

How do consumers react to an increase in gasoline taxes? How much will they drive less? Will they buy more fuel efficient cars? Do tax increases have a stronger impact...continue reading.

During the financial crisis and great recession from 2007 to 2009 the US lost 8.6 million jobs. We know that a lot of things happened in the crisis, like a...continue reading.

Difference-in-Difference (DID) estimation is a very intuitive and popular approach to estimate causal effects (see here for my take on teaching it). If you know about DID and want to...continue reading.

Assume you are an incumbent local politician that can exert certain control on your local public savings bank. Would you try to increase lending before local elections to polish economic...continue reading.

This is just a short update to my previous post. Bundestag elections are over and according to the preliminary official results the new Bundestag will have 735 members. That’s 32...continue reading.

On Sunday (26th of September), we will have the main parliamentary elections in Germany. The deepl translation of the election law states: §1 (1) Subject to the deviations resulting from...continue reading.