Jul

2

Set of tools to put Stata output in Latex

July 2, 2009 | | Leave a Comment

Gerhard Riener has a nice page replicated below.

Stata Integration to Latex

Producing Tables and Graphs and including them into publications and articles is often a very tedious task, especially when LaTex tables are involved. I collected some hopefully useful programs and links to instruction how to least paifully get your output to the masses ;-)

General Articles

A good website for people who (have to) work with data:

DataNinja maintained by an Econ PhD student

Stata Modules

The most comprehensive stata module is OUTTEX. Provides a lot of features for exporting into html, \LaTex and text.

  • CORRTEX Stata module to generate correlation tables formatted in LaTeX
  • OUTREG2 Stata module to arrange regression outputs into an illustrative table
  • TABOUT Stata module to export publication quality cross-tabulations,
  • EST2TEX Stata module to create LaTeX tables from estimation results
  • ESTOUT Stata module to make regression tables
  • SUTEX Stata module to LaTeX code for summary statistics tables
  • MAKETEX: Stata module to generate LaTeX code from a text file
  • OUTTABLE: Stata module to write matrix to LaTeX table

Jun

15

In defense of foreign banks

June 15, 2009 |  Tagged , , | Leave a Comment

My co-author Ralph de Haas has written a nice post on why foreing banks are not always the villains on Vox EU.

Sep

2

Subprime 101

September 2, 2007 | | Leave a Comment

Aron Schiff has this nice link to Stephen Cecchetti’s explanation.

clipped from www.26econ.com

FAQs and figures on the subprime issue

I think every man and his dog learned the word subprime recently. I don’t know much about banking and finance, but Stephen Cecchetti, a former director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, knows what he’s talking about and explains the subprime crisis in (almost) layman’s terms in a clearly written post on the VoxEU blog.
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Sep

2

Use of Excel to explain basics

September 2, 2007 | | Leave a Comment

Excel has become the workhorse in datamanagement. There are many reasons not to use the package. Flaws incomputations have been documened but for me a bigger flaw is the difficulty to keep your data intact. Changes to data are easily made but it’s very hard to keep track of them. Unfortunately it is a package that is widely availble and therefore used by many. This familiarity makes it a package use can use to explain simple economic concepts. Two examples are for instance given by Aaron Schiff with a simple supply and demand model. Many more are provided by  Wilson Mixon and Soumaya Tohamy, mainly micro-economics (Mankiw).

Sep

2

Top Economics blogs

September 2, 2007 | | Leave a Comment

Taken from a blog by Aaron Schiff.

clipped from www.26econ.com
10 Economics Blogs
Rank Blog Technorati
1 Freakonomics 137
2 Greg Mankiw’s Blog 581
3 Marginal Revolution 582
4 The Big Picture 1345
5 Economist’s View 2661
6 The Becker-Posner Blog 2772
7 Asymmetrical Information 3631
8 Brad DeLong 4296
9 EconLog 4344
10 Cafe Hayek 5726
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An alternative list is provided by CurrencyTrading.net. They posted a list of the top 100 economics blogs.

Oct

25

First post

October 25, 2006 | | Leave a Comment

This blog is primarily intended to post material that is useful for teaching. Previously I held a position as an Associate Professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Now I teach on request.

I will also add material and links useful for research.