Viktor Orbán gave his annual Kötcse speech, here are the key points the Prime Minister made:

- Russia–Ukraine war: Orbán argued Russia has essentially won, Ukraine is being divided, and EU membership for Ukraine would pull Hungary into war.
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#Ungarn entwickelt sich immer mehr zum wirtschaftlichen Sorgenkind Osteuropas, die „Orbánomics“ funktionieren nicht mehr. Der Opposition könnte das vor der Wahl im April 2026 helfen. Großer Wirtschaftsaufmacher in der Tageszeitung @derstandard.at mit unserem Ökonomen Ioannis Gutzianas.

"The price elasticity of import demand ε, was set at 4."

"The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs φ, is 0.25."

"ε*φ*m"

ChatGPT, how do I say multiplied by 1 in a fancy way?

📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org
database.

We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

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Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...