Courses

Discovering Discrimination with Data

This course is an immersive simulation game using the statistical concepts learned earlier to argue about patterns of gender discrimination in the workplace. The focus is on interpreting and communicating data analysis results rather than performing statistical calculations. Various assignments, including readings, essays, and presentations, reinforce the learned concepts.

Empirical Research Seminar

This course guides you through the process of empirical research in applied microeconomics, from selecting research ideas and appropriate methods, through collecting data, to submitting your final paper to a journal. We won't talk about these steps, we will do these steps together. Each student and instructor completes a paper during the two terms of the course, which they submit at the end of the course to peer-reviewed journals.

Advanced Macroeconomics

The course introduces two building blocks of macroeconomic modeling: forward-looking dynamic models and general equilibrium with heterogeneous agents. These tools are applied to problems of economic growth, labor market search, and industry dynamics. Quantitative model solutions are also illustrated using the Julia programming language.

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Reproducible Research from Day One

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Engineering and Analytics

Data engineering is increasingly important to leverage the value created by data scientists and analysts. Executives who understand the basics of data engineering can help their team create data products that are easy to change in response to ever changing business requirements. This course offers a high-level overview of the types of decisions data engineers have to make, and a hands-on illustration of the most common problems on real-world data. The key goal of this course is to help executives make decisions about the data analytics efforts of their business and ask the right questions from their team. This will help increase the Return On Investment of analytics projects so that data can serve as a competitive advantage of the business.

Coding for Economists

This course teaches how to organize data and code on your computer, how to write simple programs in Python to automate tasks, and how to use Stata throughout the steps of the your research process.

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Introduction to the Command Line for Economics

This lesson will introduce learners to fundamental skills needed for working with their computers through a command-line interface (using the bash shell). They will learn how to navigate their file system, computationally manipulate their files (e.g. copying, moving, renaming), search files, redirect output and write shell scripts. By the end of the lesson, learners will be prepared to move on to using more advanced command line tools.

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Economics with Stata

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International Trade

The course examines alternative theories of the causes of international trade and its impact on national economies (welfare, productivity, income inequality). It evaluates these theories in light of recent empirical evidence.

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Software tools for research and data analysis.

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-- Load the extension
LOAD stata_dta;

-- Read Stata file directly into DuckDB
SELECT * FROM read_stata_dta('data/survey.dta');

-- Query with SQL operations
SELECT region, AVG(income) 
FROM read_stata_dta('data/survey.dta') 
GROUP BY region;

duckdb
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stata-dta

High-performance DuckDB extension for reading Stata .dta files

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using Targets

add(x, y) = x + y

@target a = 1
@target b = 2
@target c = add(a, b)

@get c

julia

Targets.jl

Computational pipeline management for Julia

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using Kezdi
@use "distances.dta"
@replace distance = 5 @if distance < 5

julia

Kezdi.jl

A data analysis package for economists

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xt2treatments y, treatment(treatmentB) control(treatmentA) pre(1) post(3) weighting(equal)

stata

xt2treatments

event studies with two treatments

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xthdidregress ra (y) (d), group(i)
eventbaseline, pre(5) post(5) baseline(-1) graph

stata

eventbaseline

Correct Event Study After `xthdidregress`

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here
import delimited "${here}/data/raw/bls/employment.csv"

stata

here

A simpler way to find your files.

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Browse publications

Expatriate CEOs and Firm Performance: The Role of General Skills, Investment and Exporting Ability

Koren, Miklós and Álmos Telegdy. 2025. "Expatriate CEOs and Firm Performance: The Role of General Skills, Investment and Exporting Ability"

CEO Replacements and Firm Growth: Correcting for Small-Sample Bias in Fixed-Effect Estimates

Koren, Miklós, Krisztina Orbán, and Álmos Telegdy. 2025. "CEO Replacements and Firm Growth: Correcting for Small-Sample Bias in Fixed-Effect Estimates"

CEOs and Firm Performance: Estimation from the Universe of Firms

Koren, Miklós, Krisztina Orbán, Bálint Szilágyi, Álmos Telegdy, and András Vereckei. 2025. "CEOs and Firm Performance: Estimation from the Universe of Firms"

Coding for Economists

Courses

Discovering Discrimination with Data

Empirical Research Seminar

Advanced Macroeconomics

Reproducible Research from Day One

Engineering and Analytics

Coding for Economists

Introduction to the Command Line for Economics

Economics with Stata

International Trade

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Broken Ladders AI, Teamwork, and the Dynamics of Skill Formation in the Workplace

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stata-dta

Targets.jl

Kezdi.jl

xt2treatments

eventbaseline

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Browse datasets

BusinessGraph Restricted use

Who is Who Magyarországon Restricted use

Browse publications

Expatriate CEOs and Firm Performance: The Role of General Skills, Investment and Exporting Ability

CEO Replacements and Firm Growth: Correcting for Small-Sample Bias in Fixed-Effect Estimates

CEOs and Firm Performance: Estimation from the Universe of Firms