So, it’s election time here in Italy, and as usual, all politicians are concentrating on how to make Italy’s stagnant economy perform better.
Oh, sorry, no, they’re talking about how much time they get on television.
Silvio Berlusconi has now been formally placed under investigation for pressuring officials within Agcom (the sectoral regulator) and Rai. Mauro [...]
Some image-heavy slides from my presentation on the Italian media. Thanks to Jeppe for reminding me.
One of the benefits of having defended my thesis is that I can read some academic articles which are a bit outside my field. Here’s an interesting example from Alex East, entitled, “Testing the de Gaulle hypothesis”.
I’ve written a paper together with Christel Koop on the de facto and de jure independence of regulatory agencies for the 2010 PSA conference, and I’m pleased with it, even if I didn’t get to graph any interaction effects. You can find the paper here.
Some people say magic incantations are bad.
But then, you find a code snippet — sorry, incantation — on Hadley Wickham’s web site, and find out how to plot that interaction effect graph you need.
Isn’t it pretty? The bare bones:
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