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R or Python for private sector economist/strategist
If you already know how to code in MATLAB then python is more similar to it than R so I would say you will have easier time to transitioning there.
Otherwise, both R and Python are programming ...
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Visualization tools for game theory: Decision trees
LaTeX with forest
The forest package of LaTeX allows you to draw game trees with pretty simple syntax. After copying a pre-set ...
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Visualization tools for game theory: Decision trees
Mathematica has a graph building and drawing capability.
So, if you built the graph in Mathematica, then you could plot it using settings of your choosing.
In Mathematica, you might use the ...
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Game theory software
I have used gambit (python) in the past and could recommend it. It also includes a small GUI which makes things very intuitive.
R also has GameTheory if you prefer this platform instead
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R or Python for private sector economist/strategist
I would like to add on to the previous post from 1muflon1. Total agree with the post and I will try not to repeat anything said but I feel there is some additional information that is worth ...
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What are the advantages using Otree to progam economic experiments?
One irreducible advantage of oTree over z-Tree is that you can easily reuse/imply the entire trajectories of results per entity (session/group/player) when doing repeated games. With z-Tree, it is ...
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Current status and trends in the choice of software for teaching econometrics
In 2008 the American Economic Association (AEA) created a reproducible research requirement about posting the code and the data for their papers. According to analysis done by the AEA Data Editor ...
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Game theory software
Game theory explorer (GTE) offers a web-based solver that searches for Nash equilibria of the inputted games. Its documentation highlights the main differences between GTE and Gambit:
Gambit has ...
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Visualization tools for game theory: Decision trees
If you use LaTeX, you can also draw game trees with the istgame package, which is based on TikZ.
The manual contains lots of examples with full codes including:
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What is the Thomson Reuters tool that is used in universities?
It is a huge financial database which consents you to export data easily via the datastream tool for excel. There you can find common data (such as those available via online databases, e.g. yahoo ...
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Current status and trends in the choice of software for teaching econometrics
At McMaster University in Canada (#4 in Canada for research and #98 worldwide) both undergraduate and graduate (MA and above) economics programs utilize STATA for econometrics for its ease of use (...
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Current status and trends in the choice of software for teaching econometrics
In my experience in Ecomomics I would say Stata and Matlab. Stata is widely used at the undergrad level and for microeconometrics, while Matlab is introduced more at the postgrad level for general ...
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How to create a Budget line in excel or R
If you want to draw a budget constrain which takes $m$, $p_1$ and $p_2$ as inputs, this is a R code that does it:
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A graphic calculator for simple microeconomics problems
I have used https://www.mathcha.io to plot this picture:
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Most common programs used by Economists
Just as an addition to all mentioned above and because the original question is about environmental economics: in that context GAMS is used quite a bit.
In fact Nordhaus celebrated DICE model that is ...
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Resources to derive economic forecasts
You can find excellent examples of codes for DSGE models as well as VAR on QuantEcon.
For example, here is an example of VAR model in Python, and here is an example of some simple DSGE model.
The ...
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Resources to derive economic forecasts
For forecasting with VAR in R there are some good tutorials on econometrics with R. This tutorial from Justin Eloriaga also helped me when we had to make VAR for our quantitative macro assignment. ...
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Matlab code example for piecewise linear approximation and Euler Equation Iteration
Two suggestions:
First, try some of the sample code at this website. It builds simple Euler equation iteration methods from scratch in Matlab.
Second, try the sample code here. You will need to ...
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Recommended ratio of sells of software of basic and advance edition
I like this question because it provides an opportunity to showcase how one can use the simplest of mathematical analysis, full of simplifying assumptions, and still get something useful/applicable.
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How does GNU software development sustain economically?
Open-source software development is done for diverse reasons, but it's a common misunderstanding that it's done primarily by hobbyists or professionally but as a side-project. I'm answering this ...
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Visualization tools for game theory: Decision trees
Just for your convenience
If you are interested in the istgame package, you can do like this (to draw Amit's examples):
For the centipede game:
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Visualization tools for game theory: Decision trees
I have used LaTeX with tikz package. The following code is used to generate this Centepede Game :
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Why there are no famous software/IT companies in Europe? (unlike USA)
In Europe there is typical more regulations and more and higher taxes on profits, financial transactions, and on products and services. This means there is less incentive for entrepreneurs to create ...
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What are the advantages using Otree to progam economic experiments?
The main advantage of oTree is that it works for both offline and online experiments. In contrast, zTree must be run offline. So oTree is more flexible. Even if your current experiment will be run in ...
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Which database language and database management system should an economics student learn? (Provided that one has to be learned)
First, some clarity. The standard language used for interfacing with a DBMS is SQL. However, its syntax and functions slightly vary according to the DBMS system you are interfacing with.
The most ...
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Software for field work: collecting survey data (multi-platform, on-line and off-line)
I've worked in 2015 on a survey collecting ~300 answers from 130 different countries. We had similar requirements to what you described, with multilanguage functionality on top. it was not a RCT (...
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Useful software for notes and graphs in economics?
I've been trying to find a solution for this same question. As mentioned by others, most of the solutions are a bit too time consuming to do on the spot if you're taking notes, so I still think it's ...
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