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Contributions to the Matlab File Exchange

ylemaster — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:07:06 +0000

I sometimes post code that I have found useful in my work on the file exchange website of Mathworks. My programs include a simple copy/paste function, a shell for the X-13 seasonal adjustment to be used in Matlab, a Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve function, programs for importing some popular economic databases, etc. To see… Read More »

Hodrick-Prescott Filter and Seasonal Adjustment for Excel

ylemaster — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 06:00:43 +0000

What is it This is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that provides four functions: FillMissing, MA, HP, and seas. These functions take “data” as first argument. “data” contains the time series that we work on. The time series are supposed to be organized column-wise. If a single time series is to be worked on, “data”… Read More »

Gini coefficient for Excel

ylemaster — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:00:45 +0000

download file This add-in for Microsoft Excel allows you to compute the Gini coefficient with Microsoft Excel. After installing the add-in, you have a new function = gini(incomes, population), where incomes is a column with the various income levels and population is the weight given to each entity.

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Monetary Policy Simulator — MoPoS

ylemaster — Sun, 08 Apr 2001 06:00:33 +0000

MoPoS is a computer game that allows you to take control of monetary policy in a virtual economy. Effectively, you interact with a stochastic simulation of a macromodel which is simple enough to be easily implemented, but complicated enough to keep you wondering about the behavior of the economy. The link above contains the game… Read More »