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Economics Associate Prof, CEU Vienna. Trade, applied IO, organisations. sites.google.com/site/bekesg Author, "Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy" (Cambridge UP) https://gabors-data-analysis.com/ @arsenalfc fan. .. more

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Jan 22

Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks.
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 2d

We can still do it.
But maybe not in US.
Vienna?

Reposted by Gabriel Felbermayr, Harald Oberhofer, Gábor Békés

Harald Fadinger @hfadinger.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, we had a great start of the Vienna International Economics (VIES) seminar series with a talk by @banudemir.bsky.social on Plastic Turkey. For more information: sites.google.com/view/viennai...
@gaborbekes.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @robertstehrer.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social

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Reposted by Scott A. Imberman, Gábor Békés, Peter Bergman

Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 14d

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE

Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Metrics class? From tidy tables to ML and event studies.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh massive!
Thx

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 24

Budapest 🤝🇺🇦

(Via bp major)

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 21

This us awesome !

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 18

One of the methods I try these years to avoid early academic year stress is to have a week in August when I catch up.
Finish referee reports.
Do syllabi for all year.
Put stuff on websites.
Look thru unanswered mails.
Install python again.

Will it work this time?

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 18

The ROI of helping Trump to WH looks very high for Russia. ROI on Orbán, Le Pen, AfD etc also high.

Sad.

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 17

#COYG
#MUNARS

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

Vive la resistance !

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

I came light. Just found myself in a conda v. UV v. Pixi fight.

And i thought i saw it all w r vs python vs stata, or jekyll vs hugo. Or tidyverse vs data.table or pandas v polars. Or logit vs lpm.

Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

For pyfixest's development, we've been using pixi for a while, which I really enjoy. More or less it is the conda-forge (free & open source) equivalent to uv (it actually runs uv for PyPi dependency resolution). Really fast both for PyPi & conda-forge dependency resolution.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

It seems neat.

One priority for us (ie education) is to provide stg
* widely used, tested
* has been and will be around for a while

Ie it does not have to be the best just very good and widespread

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

In contrast to uv, it is cross-language and also allows to pin down non-python dependencies in the same env (R, Julia, etc). And it also has nice "pixi run command" options (you can even define tasks as in justfiles, which I personally use a lot). pixi.sh/latest/

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

If interested please test the notebooks.
Examples:
Describe
github.com/gabors-data-...
OLS
github.com/gabors-data-...
Random forest, SHAP
github.com/gabors-data-...
Panel FE, FD
github.com/gabors-data-...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you liked the original Naked Gun
You will like the new one.

Rarely good a reboot/ remake.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Köszönöm! Will test.

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Raymond Guiteras @guiterasecon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great stuff, thank you @gaborbekes.bsky.social

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Reposted by Simon Lester, Gábor Békés

Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · Aug 15

Mike Froman (Obama trade rep):

After the Trade War: Remaking Rules From the Ruins of the Rules-Based System

Could also be called: After MFN (Most Favored Nation) Rules.

Trade deal advocates and critics don't agree on much, but they do on MFN's death.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

After the Trade War

Remaking rules from the ruins of the rules-based system.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh you can add issues PRs here too. Nerd escapism.
github.com/gabors-data-...

GitHub - gabors-data-analysis/da-w-ai: Data Analysis with AI course

Data Analysis with AI course. Contribute to gabors-data-analysis/da-w-ai development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

wonderfully kind of you, mate. Thanks. Much appreciated.

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Aha, I see. We are coming from pipenv -- that is what we had in previous version. As we do this I have basically a 2nd year UG metrics class in mind, where we want to help the metrics teacher who used Stata till recently, has some RAs, but expects 200 students to setup the environment alone.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Aha I see.
And you'd suggest uv?

Any particular reason?
I know of it but never tried

Thx

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

I did not know this. What are the key benefits? Faster?

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yes, I saw it here. www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-...
I guess people are divided, and conda is very much a business standard. But will add a para on alternatives for sure. Thanks for pinging us.

Python Rgonomics - 2025 Update | Emily Riederer

Switching languages is about switching mindsets - not just syntax. New developments in python data science toolings, like polars and seaborn’s object interface, can capture the ‘feel’ that converts fr...

www.emilyriederer.com

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 14

To help students with Windows, Mac, Linux we created a step-by-step setup guide.
@anacondainc.bsky.social
@github.com
@vscode.dev
github.com/gabors-data-...

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Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Noel D. Johnson

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 14

I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies.

Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare)

Check out the revised
Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies

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Reposted by Simon Wiederhold, Gábor Békés

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Blah blah. If you'll teach undergrad or applied master #dataanalysis #methods #econometrics, with #rstats #python or #stata, have a look.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star....
Data. Code. Slides.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 12

+ hope ppl teach the telephone papers, great