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Reproducible Research with R and RStudio, 2nd Edition

Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. ISBN 978-1498715379. 2015.

Website with sample chapters.

Source files on GitHub.

Review in The American Statistician:

... advanced undergraduate students in mathematics, statistics, and similar fields as well as students just beginning their graduate studies would benefit the most from reading this book. Many more experienced R users or second-year graduate students might find themselves thinking, ‘I wish I’d read this book at the start of my studies, when I was first learning R!’ … a good text for beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduate students who are just starting to do technical research...

Review by the Mathematical Association of America:

I entered the world of data computing with great reluctance, and only because I saw the benefits of teaching statistics with R, even for elementary students. The first edition of Reproducible Research with R and RStudio was an invaluable companion in the early stages of my journey, and I trust that the second edition will be equally useful to aspiring data analysts.


Peer reviewed journal articles



Explaining Variation and Change in Supervisory Confidentiality in the European Union

with Mark Hallerberg

Accepted at the West European Politics.


The Measurement of Real-Time Perceptions of Financial Stress: Implications for political science

with Mark Hallerberg

Forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science.

Download earlier working draft PDF.


Financial Regulatory Transparency, International Institutions, and Sovereign Borrowing Costs

with Mark Copelovitch and Mark Hallerberg

Accepted at International Studies Quarterly.

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Download the Financial Data Transparency Index and replication code.

Interpreting Fiscal Accounting Rules in the European Union

with Mark Hallerberg

Journal of European Public Policy.

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Information and Financial Crisis Policymaking

with Mícheál O'Keeffe

Journal of European Public Policy. 2017. 24(3): 386-405.

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Statistical Agencies and Responses to Financial Crises: Eurostat, Bad Banks, and the ESM

West European Politics. 2016. 39(3): 545-564.

with Mark Hallerberg

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Two Sword Lengths Apart: Credible commitment problems and physical violence in democratic national legislatures

Journal of Peace Research. 2016. 53(1): 130-145.

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Write up on the Monkey Cage with Emily Beaulieu.

Applied to understanding violence in the Ukrainian Parliament in VoxUkraine.


Does Banking Union Worsen the EU’s Democratic Deficit?
The need for greater supervisory data transparency

with Mark Hallerberg

Journal of Common Market Studies. 2015. 53(4): 769-785.

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When All is Said and Done: Updating 'Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis'

with Mark Hallerberg

Research and Politics. 2015. 2(3): 1-9.

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Inflated Expectations: How government partisanship shapes bureaucrats' inflation expectations

with Cassandra Grafström

Political Science Research and Methods. 2015. 3(2): 353-380.

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Write up on the Monkey Cage.

simPH: An R Package for Illustrating Estimates for Interactive and Nonlinear Effects from Cox Proportional Hazard Models

Journal of Statistical Software. 2015. 65(3): 1-20.

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R package simPH.

Letting German Banks Fail: Federalism and the decision to close troubled banks

with Sahil Deo, Christian Franz, and Mark Hallerberg

Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS). 2015. 56(2): 159-181.

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Write up at the World Economic Forum.

Competing Risks and Deposit Insurance Governance Convergence

International Political Science Review. 2014. 35(2): 197-217.

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Website with data, source code, and ancillary tables.



The Diffusion of Financial Supervisory Governance Ideas

Review of International Political Economy. 2013. 20(4): 881-916.

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Download data and source code.


Other academic/policy publications



How not to create zombie banks: Lessons for Italy from Japan

with Mark Hallerberg

Bruegel Policy Contribution. March 2017.

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Visualize Dynamic Simulations of Autoregressive Relationships in R

with Laron K Williams and Guy D Whitten

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The Political Methodologist. 2016. 23(2): 6-10.


Financial regulatory transparency: new data and implications for EU policy

with Mark Copelovitch and Mark Hallerberg

Bruegel Policy Contribution. December 2015.

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Corrections and Refinements to the Database of Political Institutions’ yrcurnt Election Timing Variable

The Political Methodologist. 2015. 22(2):2-4.

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Bad Banks in the EU: The impact of Eurostat rules

with Mark Hallerberg

Bruegel Working Paper. 2014/15.

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Supervisory transparency in the European banking union

with Mark Hallerberg

Bruegel Policy Contribution. January 2014.

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Media mentions: Der Standard (Austria)



Who Decides? Resolving Failed Banks in a European Framework

with Mark Hallerberg

Bruegel Policy Contribution. November 2013.

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Also published in Nowa Europa (Poland).


GitHub: A tool for social data set development and verification in the cloud

The Political Methodologist. 2013. 20(2): 2-7.

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An updated PDF is available at SSRN.

Associated R package repmis.


Working Papers/Under Review



Speaking Under Stress: An Analysis of Federal Reserve Speeches

with Kevin Young

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Abstract


Predicting Self-Fulfilling Financial Crises

with Thomas Pepinsky

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Abstract


Creating Scrutiny Indicators: A Change Point Exploration of Congressional Scrutiny of the US Federal Reserve

with Kevin Young

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Abstract


Bad Banks as a Response to Crises:
When Do Governments Use Them, and Why Does Their Governance Differ?

with Mark Hallerberg

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The project website.

Abstract


Clearing the Benches: How institutional incentives shape legislative brawls

with Emily Beaulieu

Abstract


Automating R Package Citations in Reproducible Research Documents

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Abstract


Other



Knowing the unknowns: financial policymaking in uncertainty

London School of Economics PhD Thesis. 2012.



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