Publications by Thomas Brand

Automating update of an international database for the Euro Area

16.12.2019

Our purpose is to create an international quarterly database for the Euro area that could be updated automatically. We want to build the following series: Foreign demand (without trade between Euro area countries) Foreign interest rate Oil prices Real effective exchange rate Import and export To construct these series we use data from DBn...

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Automating update of an international database for the Euro Area

16.12.2019

Our purpose is to create an international quarterly database for the Euro area that could be updated automatically. We want to build the following series: Foreign demand (without trade between Euro area countries) Foreign interest rate Oil prices Real effective exchange rate Import and export To construct these series we use data from DBn...

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Foreign Demand for France, Germany, Italy and Spain

12.02.2020

Our purpose is to build the quarterly foreign demand for France, Germany, Italy and Spain. To construct these series we use data from DBnomics, through the rdbnomics package. All the code is written in R, thanks to the RCoreTeam (2016) and RStudioTeam (2016). For each country, we proceed in three steps: we calculate the growth of imports in ...

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Foreign Demand for France, Germany, Italy and Spain

12.02.2020

Our purpose is to build the quarterly foreign demand for France, Germany, Italy and Spain. To construct these series we use data from DBnomics, through the rdbnomics package. All the code is written in R, thanks to the RCoreTeam (2016) and RStudioTeam (2016). For each country, we proceed in three steps: we calculate the growth of imports in ...

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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’

02.06.2020

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States +0.3 Q1 -5.0 -5.9 +4.7 -15.0 Apr +0.3 Apr +0.6 +14.7 Apr China -0.1 Q1 -1.0 +1.2 +9.2 +5.4 Nov§ +3.3...

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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’

19.10.2020

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States -2.9 Q3 +33.1 -4.3 +3.1 -5.3 Oct +1.2 Oct +1.5 +6.9 Oct China +0.1 Q3 +0.3 +1.9 +8.2 +5.4 Nov§ +1.7 ...

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Access the free economic database DBnomics with R

19.10.2020

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 do...

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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’

19.10.2020

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States -9.0 Q2 -31.4 -4.3 +3.1 -7.7 Aug +1.3 Aug +1.5 +7.9 Sep China +0.0 Q2 +0.8 +1.9 +8.2 +5.4 Nov§ +2.4 ...

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Access the free economic database DBnomics with R

19.10.2020

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 do...

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Comparing 1st and 2nd lockdown using electricity consumption in France

07.12.2020

The health and economic crisis is of unprecedented scale and speed. To measure it, high frequency data are used, complementary to traditional data. We focus on electricity consumption from ENEDIS data, available on DBnomics, through the rdbnomics package. All the following code is written in R, thanks to the RCoreTeam (2016) and the RStudioTeam ...

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