Welcome and Moin! I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Cape Town under the supervision of Co-Pierre Georg, entering the job market in 2018.
I'm also a Research Affiliate of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Innovation & Labor · Social Network Analysis · Economics of Science · Political Economy of Central Banks
Welcome and Moin! I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Cape Town under the supervision of Co-Pierre Georg, entering the job market in 2018.
I'm also a Research Affiliate of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Kiel Working Paper 2084, June 2017
SSRN: 2877586, Dec 2016
with Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank) and Daniel C. Opolot (UCT)
ERSA Working Paper 571, Jan 2015
SSRN: 2709107, Dec 2015
with Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank)
with Suraj Shekhar (UCT)
Co-Pierre Georg and I have developed a website to accompany our paper on informal collaboration in financial economics. You will find a ranking of financial economists based on their centrality in the network of informal collaboration and many more interesting facts in the blog
www.Central-Places.netJohn Kitchen and I develop scopus, being a Python module for easy, large-scale interaction with Elsevier's Scopus bibliometric database.
scopus on rtfd.org
I develop scholarmetrics, a python package for fast computation of citation metrics.
scholarmetrics on rtfd.org
I help developing networkx, being THE python package for network analyses.
networkx on rtfd.org
Being an empirical researcher, I'd like to recommend a number of "manuals" that helped me set foot in the academic world: