Beware of weak links in large datasets
One of the main characteristics of the last few years is the increasing availability of statistical information on many aspects of...
Roundtable with the Minister for Digital & Innovation
I had the pleasure to be invited to the Public Innovation week for a roundtable on the future of algorithms. The video of the debate is...
Ethique des algorithmes et débat démocratique
Les réseaux sociaux nous ciblent de façon toujours plus pointue et ne nous font parvenir que les informations qui nous conforteront dans...
L'effet Joseph en finance
Mon intervention aujourd'hui sur France Info ("un jour une question" par Emmanuel Davidenkoff, en réécoute ici) porte sur l'effet Joseph....
The meaning of the 21st Century
An interesting Legacy Over a decade ago, James Martin, the highest-selling author of books on computing and related technology gave £60...
Not summers, but winters that are warmer
On September 25, Frédérique Bec from Théma (University of Cergy-Pontoise), Anders Rahbek (University of Copenhagen) and myself organized...
OxMetrics user Conference Aix-en-Provence
I have now arrived in Aix-en-Provence for the 16th Oxmetrics user conference which gathers econometricians who work with or develop this...
Isaac Asimov as an Econometrician
Isaac Asimov, one of the masters of Anticipation, aka Sci-Fi, invented the concept of Psychohistory in his novel FOUNDATION (1951). Well,...
Econometrics helps to understand climate change
Here is a post that I wrote for ESSEC Knowledge in October 2014. It is still up to date! When Claude Allegre published his book...
Current research in economics
The NBER Summer Institute has started again and economists from around the world are now congregating in Boston to discuss their recent...