EconMacroBlog

This repository houses the code and data to accompany the Jamel Saadaoui's EconMacro blogs. The blogs cover a variety of topics including programming, best practices, time series, econometrics, graphics, and more.

Blog Topic (EconMacro link)	Codes and Data (Github Repository)	Date
LP Stata	"Improving the Visualization of Local Projection IRFs in Stata"	December 11, 2025
Currency Stata	"Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database (CEMGCD)"	November 10, 2025
Tariffs Stata	"Fiscal and exchange rate policy can reduce the trade deficit (not tariffs)"	March 30, 2025
SVAR Excel	"How to SVAR with Excel!"	March 30, 2025
GDM Stata	"Global Macro Database"	Feburary 5, 2025
MS URT RATS	"Markov-switching models and unit root test using RATS"	Feburary 4, 2025
SVAR RATS	"SVAR with Sign Restriction using RATS"	Feburary 2, 2025
Database	"Daily Exchange Rates from the BIS"	January 31, 2025
SVAR	"Leveraging personal programs with Stata"	January 29, 2025
SVAR RATS	"Vector Autoregressions with RATS"	August 7, 2024
Histograms	"Two-Way Histograms"	May 24, 2024
PIIE	"Measuring friendliness and like-mindedness"	April 26, 2024
GDELT	"Starting with GDELT data"	April 14, 2024
Quantiles	"Visualizing quantile regressions with Stata"	March 17, 2024
Database	"NUTS Data with DBnomics"	February 21, 2024
Database	"Panel Data with DBnomics"	February 11, 2024
Maps	"Drawing Maps with GADM data"	January 04, 2024
Stats	"Descriptive Statistics by Country in Panel Data with Stata"	December 29, 2023
Database	"From panel data to time series with Stata"	December 27, 2023
Dates	"Dates and Times in Excel and in Stata"	December 26, 2023
Maps	"Drawing Maps for the Chinese regions with Stata"	December 22, 2023
Maps	"Drawing Maps with Stata… Again and Again!"	December 21, 2023
Maps	"Drawing Maps with Stata… Again!"	December 20, 2023
Maps	"Drawing Maps with Stata for Africa"	December 19, 2023
Denton Stata	"Denton’s method with Stata"	November 26, 2023
HDID Stata	"Heterogeneous Difference-in-Differences with Stata"	September 14, 2023
JEL Survey	"Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past"	September 4, 2023
NRE MMA	"Natural Resources Economics with Mathematica"	September 3, 2023
DSGENL Stata	"Estimating a nonlinear DSGE model with Stata"	August 30, 2023
VARS Stata	"Sign and Narrative Restrictions in SVAR with Stata"	August 23, 2023
Wolfram Language	"How to use the Wolfram Language in a Jupyter Notebook (100th blog)"	August 19, 2023
Local Projections	"Illustrating the new LPIRF Stata 18’s command"	May 10, 2023
Power	"Size and Power using Stata: a Simple Example"	May 09, 2023
AI Assistant	"Illustrating the sample variance bias with R and Mathematica"	May 04, 2023
AI Assistant	"Producing a Stata code for a simple Monte Carlo simulation with an AI programming assistant"	April 23, 2023
Monetary Union	"The fragility of an incomplete monetary union with Mathematica"	March 04, 2023
GDP Determination	"A simple model of the determination of the GDP with Mathematica"	December 19, 2021
Maps	"Drawing Maps with Stata"	April 11, 2021
Moments	"Moments of a discrete distribution with Mathematica"	April 4, 2021
Exchange rates	"The Bretton Woods era through the exchange rate lens"	March 10, 2021
COVID19	"Does testing more lead to finding more cases?"	August 6, 2020
Kurtosis	"Kurtosis Illustrated"	July 22, 2020
Exchange rates	"Burgernomics: R codes and datasets"	July 20, 2020
Logistic Growth	"Logistic growth: clearly explained!"	April 11, 2020

Contacts

Jamel Saadaoui
University of Paris 8