About

I am an economist working for the City of Seattle, developing economic and revenue forecasts.

I got my PhD from University of Minnesota and then worked a bit in academia on topics in Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Econometrics (using Matlab and Dynare for the Bayesian estimation of DSGE models, search and matching models of the labor market). Nowadays I spend a lot of time in R and EViews, analyzing data and forecasting.

This website contains teaching materials for times series and forecasting courses I taught way back when. Be aware that the script files in the teaching section have not been updated since 2019. A lot of exciting improvements have been made to R packages and some really cool new ones came out since then. Those script files also reflects my understanding back then what good R code should look like, this has developed over time too. Nevertheless I do believe that they still might be useful.