Teaching / Interactive Models

Teaching

Creighton University

• Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2023, two sections). Student evaluations can be accessed here and there. Textbook: Cowen and Tabarrok’s Modern Principles of Economics: Microeconomics. The class includes a stock picking project and several in-class experiments such as Vernon Smith’s pit market experiment. Some quotes from students:

"Very good teacher with a sense of humor who made class interesting. I definitely learned a lot and was excited to attend his classes. He cared a lot about his students and made sure everyone understood the material. He was always available if you needed help and wanted to see you succeed. Overall, it was a very good course taught very well!"

"I surely increased my knowledge of economics after this course and its curriculum. Thank you!!"

• Principles of Macroeconomics (Spring 2024, two sections). Student evaluations can be accessed here and there. Textbook: Cowen and Tabarrok’s Modern Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics. Some quotes from students:

"I genuinely enjoyed this class. I took a lot out of this class and I am going to consider it for a major."

"I enjoyed his class and the way that he taught. I enjoy the extra credit he gives out and the presentations/projects to understand the material. I also really liked the country project and how that was formatted. Another thing to add, is that he helped me a lot when I went into his office hours."

Université Lumière Lyon 2

• Monetary Macroeconomics (TA, Fall 2020, two sections). A second-year course in macroeconomics. The university switched all the classes online a few weeks before the semester started, and I developped a number of videos, quizzes and interactive applications (see below) to retain students.

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Interactive Models

A list of interactive models I’ve built in JavaScript and R/Shiny, which are available on this website or other websites, in particular on the companion website to our book with Michaël Assous, https://economic-instability.com, where the applications are accompanied by jointly written blog posts.

I have used the interactive ISLM models to explain basic macroeconomic effects (Pigou effect, Keynes effect, Fisher effect, liquidity trap) to students in macroeconomic classes. Pictures can be drawn easily, and shocks added to observe the comparative statics.

Classroom Models

• The Pit Market Experiment
• Ordinary Least Squares Regression
• ISLM and the Aggregate Demand curve
• The ISLM Model
• The Keynesian Cross and the IS curve

Research Models

• Kaldor's model of the trade cycle: dynamics and a numerical example
• Simulation and decomposition of Ragnar Frisch's rocking horse model (1933)

On economic-instability.com:

• Wage changes and unemployment
• Investment, savings and the interest rate
• Samuelson (1941) - Stability of Equilibrium
• Lundberg (1937)
• Samuelson (1939)
• Tinbergen (1937)
• Kalecki (1935)
• Hamburger (1931)
• Tinbergen (1935)
• Tinbergen (1936)

Other applications written in R/Shiny include:

• Samuelson (1939): Samuelson’s multiplier accelerator model
• Frisch (1933): Frisch’s 1933 economic propagation mechanism
• Solow (1956): Textbook Solow growth model

Other

• La Moulinette: an application I built in Python during my PhD to streamline the process of translating papers written in Dutch or German. Several of my publications, especially those on Jan Tinbergen, used this software to gain access to many of his untranslated articles.