http://iman.edublogs.org Research and Teaching Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gerhard Riener has a nice page replicated below. LaTex and Stata @ Gerhard's Hompage @ Department of Economics @ Essex 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 ... http://iman.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/set-of-tools-to-put-stata-output-in-latex/ My co-author Ralph de Haas has written a nice post on why foreing banks are not always the villains on Vox EU. http://iman.edublogs.org/2009/06/15/in-defense-of-foreign-banks/ 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 ... http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/subprime-101/ 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. ... http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/use-of-excel-to-explain-basics/ 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 www.26econ.com     An alternative list is provided by CurrencyTrading.net. They posted a list of the top 100 economics blogs. http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/top-economics-blogs/ 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. http://iman.edublogs.org/2006/10/25/first-post/