Why I Switched to Julia
The following story explains why I began programming in Julia. Since then, I have found that Julia improves the performance of my other econometric estimators. However, Julia has a major disadvantage...
View ArticleUPDATE: A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics
Here, you can find the latest version of the paper and all of the codes used in A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics, by S. Boragan Aruoba and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. This is the...
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Julia Attracts an International Audience
I created this site 2 days ago to help economists learn Julia. I am pleasantly surprised that so many share this interest. Below, see the number of views of this site over these 2 days by country....
View ArticleREVISITED: Julia vs Python Speed Comparison: Bootstrapping the OLS MLE
I originally switched to Julia because Julia was estimating a complicated MLE about 100-times faster than Python. Yesterday, I demonstrated how to bootstrap the OLS MLE in parallel using Julia. I...
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Please visit JuliaBloggers.com, in which JuliaEconomics.com is an active participant, to keep track of the latest news, tips, and advances in programming with Julia. JuliaEconomics.com is featured in...
View ArticleFernández-Villaverde to Speak at Becker Friedman Institute
To those readers affiliated with the University of Chicago: The economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania, a leader in the field of computational economics and co-author of the...
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