A tool to gather, analyze and visualize data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) API. Functions include segmentation, geographic analysis and visualization.

Source files of the course "Intermediate Macroeconomics"

Portal for the course "Economic Slack" [ECON 221B] at UCSC in Winter 2024

Portal for the course "Unemployment" [ECON 182] at UCSC in Winter 2025

China Macroeconomic Dashboard

In this project, I show how different combinations and components of term spread have varying shapes, which can be analyzed in order to understand movements in the economy. Calculating term spread dispersion can help us better price risk in the bond market. Term spread combinations have varying power in explaining future movements in macro varia…

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Code and data for the paper "u* = √uv: The Full-Employment Rate of Unemployment in the United States"

R codes and dataset for the estimation of the high-dimensional state space model proposed in the paper "A dynamic factor model approach to incorporate Big Data in state space models for official statistics" with Franz Palm, Stephan Smeekes and Jan van den Brakel.

Code and data for the paper "Beveridgean Unemployment Gap"

Code and data for the paper "Has the Recession Started?"

How to make a choropleth map of Europe using Eurostat data and <200 lines of code

Code and data for the paper "A Theory of Countercyclical Government Multiplier"

Code and data for the paper "Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment"

Code and data for the paper "Do Matching Frictions Explain Unemployment? Not in Bad Times"

Fully automated entry of job application data into Connecticut's DOL ReEmployCT portal

Code and data for the paper "A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Applications"

Choropleth map of unemployment 2006 to 2015

We examine unemployment rate from an aggregate perspective in Australia for the last three years. We want to present a framework that analyses the unemployment rate by gender, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and examining if the original Phillips curve is applicable in this scenario.

Code and data for the paper "Optimal Public Expenditure with Inefficient Unemployment"