Friday, February 27, 2015

Not all about Supply and Demand: the case of oil prices

It wasn't long ago when we thought oil was a scarce commodity in the US. Now we have more oil in our...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Un- and Under-researched topics in (Counter-) Terrorism Studies

An article by Alex P. Schmid lists 50 topics in the field of (counter-)terrorism that are either un-researched or under-researched. Im not going to list them all here, but there are a few that caught my eye. ISIS vs. al Qaeda: comparing and contrasting organizational structures. ISIS's rise to infamy was rather fascinating. In 2014, they took over portions of Iraq and were aiming to achieve their goal of a caliphate. The world definately took notice, and ISIS might have...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Gretl: Picking between stacked time-series and stacked cross-sectional formats

When you're doing panel data regression in GRETL or any statistical software, you need your data formatted...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Migrations and Diasporas of New York

A fascinating NYT post describes our migration patterns to and fro each state. The migration data is...
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