Publications by Thomas Brand
DBnomics R client, a tutorial
DBnomics : the world’s economic database You can explore all the economic data from different providers by following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways to do so. Fetch time series by ids First, let’s assume that we know which ...
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Access the free economic database DBnomics with R
DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways to d...
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Access the free economic database DBnomics with R
DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways to d...
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Access the free economic database DBnomics with R
DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways to d...
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Implicit Tax Rates on Consumption and Labor in Europe
The aim of this blog post is to compute the implicit tax rates (ITR) on consumption, labour and corporate income for France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the Euro Area since 1995. We use as reference the report on Taxation trends in the European Union (2019) from the European Commission, and the previous reports since 2014. This database is built a...
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Implicit Tax Rates on Consumption and Labor in Europe
The aim of this blog post is to compute the implicit tax rates (ITR) on consumption, labour and corporate income for France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the Euro Area since 1995. We use as reference the report on Taxation trends in the European Union (2019) from the European Commission, and the previous reports since 2014. This database is built a...
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Automating update of a fiscal database for the Euro Area
Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series that go as far as the 1980’s. We use two sources to build the database: the historical database developed in Paredes et al. (2014), which stops in 2013, and the latest Eurostat da...
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Automating update of a fiscal database for the Euro Area
Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series that go as far as the 1980’s. We use two sources to build the database: the historical database developed in Paredes et al. (2014), which stops in 2013, and the latest Eurostat da...
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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’
Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2019† 2020† latest latest 2019† latest United States +2.1 Q3‡ +2.1 +2.4 +2.1 -0.8 Nov‡ +2.3 Dec‡ +1.8 +3.5 Dec‡ China +0.1 Q3‡ +0.2 +6.1 +5.8 +5.4...
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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’
Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2019† 2020† latest latest 2019† latest United States +2.1 Q3 +2.1 +2.4 +2.1 -1.1 Oct +1.8 Oct +1.8 +3.6 Oct China +0.1 Q3 +0.2 +6.1 +5.8 +5.4 Nov‡ +3.8 ...
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