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Gábor Békés

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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.

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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 · 8h

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

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Harald Fadinger @hfadinger.bsky.social · 21h

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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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 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.

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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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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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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 17

#COYG
#MUNARS

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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 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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Raymond Guiteras @guiterasecon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great stuff, thank you @gaborbekes.bsky.social

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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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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 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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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.