Exploring EU wide data on new car registrations and CO2 efficiency
I just found out that here the EU made large data sets available about every newly registered car in the EU (currently from 2012 to 2018). The data set from...continue reading.
I just found out that here the EU made large data sets available about every newly registered car in the EU (currently from 2012 to 2018). The data set from...continue reading.
One goal of game theory is to understand how effective cooperation can be sustained in relationships. You may have heard of Axelrod’s famous tournaments that studied how effective different submitted...continue reading.
When developing a new R project, I usually want to quickly get some examples running. This means in early stages, I don’t spend much time to consistently name my functions...continue reading.
gtree is a new R package that allows to specify extensive form games using stages, similar as one specifies economic experiments with ztree or otree. Let us specify a simple...continue reading.
At Ulm University, we currently use RTutor for several elective courses where students solve interactive problem sets at home. They can test their solutions and get automatic hints, and then...continue reading.
An earlier post from February, describes a Shiny app that allows to search among currently more than 4000 economic articles that have an accessible data and code supplement. Finally, I...continue reading.
There are nowadays different options to create interactive R tutorials that allow users to type in code, automatically check their solution and get hints if they are stuck. Two options...continue reading.
Last week I stumbled across a very interesting recent Econometrica article by Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjuro. I was really surprised by the statistical result they discovered and guess the...continue reading.
In my view, one of the greatest developments during the last decade in economics is that the Journals of the American Economic Association and some other leading journals require authors...continue reading.
In my view, one of the greatest developments during the last decade in economics is that the Journals of the American Economic Association and some other leading journals require authors...continue reading.
Since about two weeks, I face a large additional traffic jam every morning due to a construction site on the road. When passing the construction site, often only few people...continue reading.
How does driving an electric car compare to driving a similar gasoline car in terms of total pollution damages? While some comments about the future of mobility may suggest that...continue reading.
A small blog post with a riddle, simulation, theory and a concluding rhyme. Consider a fictitious example in which we have collected a sample of somewhat overweight persons for which...continue reading.
I just learned about RStudio Cloud (see https://rstudio.cloud/) that allows to simply run RStudio instances from your browser. Moreover, you can simply set-up RStudio projects that other users can simply...continue reading.
Recently, a paper was presented at our university that showed a significant effect for a variable of interest but had a relatively small number of observations. One colleague suggested that...continue reading.
I like to start my courses in energy economics and environmental economics by asking some question like Which energy source, e.g. gas, coal, nuclear, oil, renewables had the largest absolute...continue reading.
Recently, I have written and hosted several multi-user Shiny apps. One example, is Taddle that runs on my server at http://taddle.mathematik.uni-ulm.de. Taddle is a multi-user shiny app that offers a...continue reading.
One very important benefit of stronger environmental protection is to reduce the damaging effects of pollution on human health. In his very interesting article “The Consequences of Industrialization: Evidence from...continue reading.
It is widely recognized that aggressive securitization of housing loans played a decisive role in the creating of a house price bubble in the US and the subsequent financial crisis....continue reading.
Nowadays, a lot of interesting time series data is freely available that allows us to compare important economic, social and environmental trends across countries. I feel that one can learn...continue reading.