Econometrics, Data Visualization and Computer Science

In brief

2016

I'm still working on several applied project within the TSE research groups "Food Economics" one the one hand, and the "Econometrics and Empirical Economics" on the other hand.

For many years now, I have investigated data visualization for economics and econometrics quite lenghly. I have constructed a Course for the ENSAI (Big Data master). See also my Webpage on Data Visualization (here a picture taken at the Meetup Toulouse Data Visualization ).

I also recently reactivated my Stata skills and animated a 2 day kick-off course on Stata for the PhD students at the university Nancy Lorraine. The webpage with some Stata ressources has also been reactivated.

2015

After the success of the two first volume of the French version of "A cartoon introduction to economics" devoted to microeconomics (2012) and macroeconomics (2014), I have translated " Le changement climatique en BD" and reinforced my connections with my friend Yoram Bauman (the World's first and only stand-up economist !). Jean Tirole has generously written some nice words in the post-face, as  he did for the first two volumes.

You can find excerpt of the book here.

A significant part of my activity has been devoted to work with Céline Nauges on a paper using A. Lewbel's Special Regressor technique. It has been published in the AJAE. (see Publications)

I've accepted to do a short introduction to data visualization at the "Café de l'IMT", University Toulouse Paul Sabatier (see on the right) The slides (in French) are available on their website.

2014

I have been invited by Céline Nauges to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, for 2 weeks of research on an application of Arthur Lewbel's special regressor method. An outcome of this very enjoyable visit is this working paper.

I'm working on several tools involving Data Visualization (including Dynamic Data Visualization) using R, among others. I also wrote a paper (in French) on How to use Sweave in Parallel on several files.

On the research side, I'm working on Robust Production Frontiers (alpha and M-Frontiers) from an applied point of view.

I have translated the second volume on macro: " L'économie en BD : La macroéconomie" and reinforced my connections with my friend Yoram Bauman (the World's first and only stand-up economist !).

2013

2012

Back to research after 16  month working for the TSE community within the PIG-TSE project (see below).  I am currently involved in nonparametric production frontier estimation (with Céline Nauges, Vincent Réquillart & Michel Simioni) and in some methodological tools on nonparametric binary choice models (with Jeffrey Racine and Michel Simioni). 

I also did the French translation of the wonderful Cartoon introduction to economics, thanks to my friend Yoram Bauman (the World's first and only stand-up economist !).

2011

The book (in French) "Stata par la pratique" written with Eric Cahuzac is still available at Amazon or Stata Press Edition (48$). See also the review in the Stata journal. The code source used in this book, fully annotated is available for download here (4Mo).

Nb of sales (December 2015): More than 1 300 !

Before...

With Céline Nauges, we have published in a journalistic style paper based on previous research on the role of environment in the probability for households to drink or not to drink tap water (see Publications)