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Density gradient maps and conflict in Africa
On a social platform, I recently posted an animated map showing the evolution of conflict hotspots across Africa over the past two decades or so.
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July 2023

Gatekeepers of the top five
Recently, John List posted this on Twitter:
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April 2023

March 2023

Econobelographic
Nobel Prize laureates are an extraordinary group of people.
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January 2023

All forecasts are wrong, but some are also inadequate
Forecasting is difficult, partly because all models are wrong (or because we are wrong about models).
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War in Ukraine and Disrupted Markets
This is the title of my slide deck, which I prepared for my (virtual) presentation at the 13th Annual CAES-SCAE Canadian Agri-food Policy Conference.
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Is more information better for forecast accuracy? It depends!
The more data we have the more accurate are our forecasts, typically.
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Confidence in a forecast vs accuracy of a forecast
Recently, I saw a quote by Dean Williams who, in his keynote at the Financial Analysts Federation Seminar at Rockford College on 9 August 1981, said…
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David Ubilava

December 2022

Authors, reviewers, editors: One head, three hats.
I have now served as a co-editor of Food Policy for over four years.
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Radial plots
In my recently published article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, in which we measure the seasonal impact of year-on-year price…
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When correlation is more than just that: Bird is a word
“The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.“ This quote belongs to George Crumb—an American composer of…
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