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Undergraduate Thesis

Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

The repository contains data and iPython-files for replication of Farhi and Gourio (2018) on data for a range of countries. Farhi and Gourio's paper may be downloaded here.

Farhi and Gourio's data for the US and MATLAB-replication files are available on François Gourio's website. Note that if you receive a data-read error, you may wish to use a semi-colon seperated CSV-file. You may find a semi-colon seperated copy of Farhi and Gourio's here

Publish date: The final paper is available on norgaardpetersen.dk.

Authors

  • Jens Brink, Economics Student at University of Copenhagen
  • Martin Nørgaard Petersen, Economics Student at University of Copenhagen

Supervisor: Jeppe Druedahl, Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen

Overview

This repository entails the followingly Python-files:

  • data.ipynb
  • analysis.ipynb
  • graphs.ipynb

The data.ipynb file imports data and does relevant calculations based hereon, as described in the paper. The main analysis.ipynb file consists of a calibration part and a decomposition part, first calibrating the model and then calculating the contributions from each parameter. Finally, the graphs.ipynb file produces all graphs.

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Contributions are welcome. Please reach out for any questions.

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