Categories

micro theory

• Institutional governance and endowment management 17 May 2021
• Are economists getting choice theory all wrong because of ergodicity? 14 Jan 2021
• Pricing a new substitute good 21 Dec 2020
• Long-run equilibria in a Zero Dawn economy 05 Jun 2018
• High orbit, low orbit - a satellite altitude game 25 Dec 2016
• Broadcasting in the Dark Forest 15 Aug 2016
• An app for Coase bargaining 10 May 2016
• An example of a two-part tariff 10 Nov 2015
• The Nash Bargaining Solution with 2 players 01 Nov 2015
• Hotelling monopoly pricing for a digital good with piracy 20 Oct 2015
• Optimal supply of an illegal commodity in a symmetric Cournot market 19 Oct 2015
• A hidden action principal-agent problem between an owner and a manager 15 Oct 2015
• An expected-utility maximizer and 3 lotteries 12 Oct 2015
• Monopoly pricing for sequential discrete demand 11 Oct 2015
• When is it optimal to search for a used car? 08 Oct 2015
• A simple labor market with two types of workers and a test 06 Oct 2015
• A symmetric Circle City Hotelling model 05 Oct 2015
• Asymmetric Cournot with discrete quantities 05 Oct 2015
• Monopoly pricing for discrete demand 04 Oct 2015
• Repeated play and collusion in an N-firm Bertrand oligopoly 03 Oct 2015
• Deriving pass-through for an N-firm Cournot oligopoly 02 Oct 2015
• Hotelling duopoly with different valuations and a merger 01 Oct 2015
• When a manager can reduce fixed costs in exchange for profits 30 Sep 2015
• Oligopoly - Bertrand and Cournot 29 Sep 2015
• Triangle City - A Hotelling Model 28 Sep 2015

macro theory

• A representative agent's variable capacity utilization problem 18 Oct 2015
• On-the-job search with dynamic programming 10 Oct 2015
• A two period planner's problem with heterogeneous time preferences 07 Oct 2015

probability theory

• Proof of a law of large numbers 16 Nov 2015

shiny

• Is this worth a search? 08 Feb 2016
• A conditional probability app 07 Feb 2016

reviews

• Thoughts on "A Random Physicist Takes on Economics" 31 May 2018
• Paper Review - "Space debris - Assessing risk and responsibility" 29 Jul 2016
• Paper review - "Allocation of Orbit and Spectrum Resources for Regional Communications - What's at Stake?" 26 Jul 2016
• Paper Review - "Earth Orbit Debris - An Economic Model" 21 Jun 2016

eda

• Some statistics from a widget industry 24 Dec 2016
• Visualizing helmet weights 21 Dec 2016
• Australian water trading data, part 2 - zero price transactions 02 Jul 2016
• A look at some Australian water trading data 29 Jun 2016

econometrics

• Distribution regression in R 29 Jul 2021
• Looking at LASSO - parameter estimation in a contrived example 16 Jul 2016

teaching

• Lessons of the Fall 11 Dec 2020
• Don't just cut costs, increase revenues too 21 Jun 2020
• A few ways to curve class grades 22 Dec 2017

data

• A build-stencil-cut approach to constructing satellite histories 20 Aug 2020
• Tidying TLEs in R 14 Jul 2018

life

• Life update 09 May 2019

current events

• Three stories about the rise of data science programs 22 May 2022
• Recessionary jargon and epidemics 20 Jul 2021

random

• Powers of 176 end in 76 14 Feb 2022