rickecon
Senior Economist, Abundance Institute. Director, Open Source Economics Laboratory. President, Open Research Group.
Abundance Institute
Pinned Repositories
CompMethods
"Computational Methods for Economists using Python", by Richard W. Evans. Tutorials and executable code in Python for the most commonly used computational methods in economics.
Notebooks
Jupyter notebooks authored by Richard Evans
OG-Core
Overlapping generations model for evaluating fiscal policy in the United States.
OGbequests
Overlapping generations model with calibrated bequests
OGcourse_F17
Economic Policy Analysis with Overlapping Generations Models (Autumn 2017)
StructEst_W17
MACS 40200: Structural Estimation
StructEst_W18
MACS 40200 (Winter 2018): Structural Estimation
StructEst_W19
MACS 40200 (Winter 2019): Structural Estimation
StructEst_W20
MACS 40200 (Winter 2020): Structural Estimation
wealthtax
Model for Scoring Wealth Tax and Increased Progressivity in Income Tax - Python Based
rickecon's Repositories
rickecon/OG-Core
Overlapping generations model for evaluating fiscal policy in the United States.
rickecon/OG-USA
Source code and data to calibrate the OG-USA model
rickecon/OGprimer
Repository for introductory training materials for overlapping generations modeling
rickecon/UN-OG-Training
Training materials for United Nations country-specific overlapping generations model
rickecon/AR-IndivBusTax
Data and code for analysis in 2024 Arkansas individual and business tax reform article
rickecon/CharitableContrib
Data, code, and visualizations for analysis of federal charitable deduction reform
rickecon/Cost-of-Capital-Calculator
A cost of capital and effective tax rate calculator
rickecon/FedFundsPlot
Plotting the time series of the effective federal funds rate and its target in Python.
rickecon/fiscalsim-us
FiscalSim US is a microsimulation model of the US federal and state tax and benefit system relating to households and individuals.
rickecon/LA-IndivBusTax
Data and code for analysis in 2024 Louisiana individual and business tax reform article
rickecon/NewInterp
Junk repository for testing interpolation methods
rickecon/NV-SalesTax
Data and code for analysis in "How to Cut Taxes in Nevada for the Most Bang for the Buck: the State Sales Tax"
rickecon/OG-IDN
Overlapping-generations macroeconomic model for evaluating fiscal policy in Indonesia
rickecon/OG-PHL
Overlapping-generations macroeconomic model for evaluating fiscal policy in the Philippines
rickecon/OG-PHL-sims
Simulations and reforms using OG-PHL, run scripts, data, and descriptions
rickecon/OG-ZAF
Overlapping-generations macroeconomic model for evaluating fiscal policy in South Africa
rickecon/OGlifespan-app
Files for a Flask app of a sensitivity analysis tool for the Silver Linings book
rickecon/OpenRG.github.io
rickecon/oselab
Open Source Macroeconomics Lab Webpage built in Flask
rickecon/policyengine-us
rickecon/SC-IndivBusTax
Data and code for analysis in 2024 South Carolina individual and business tax reform article
rickecon/SilverLinings
Data and code for resources in Silver Linings book
rickecon/Tax-Brain
Tax-Brain is an integrator model for PSL tax models
rickecon/Tax-Calculator
USA Federal Individual Income and Payroll Tax Microsimulation Model
rickecon/tax-microdata-benchmarking
A project to develop a benchmarked general-purpose dataset for tax reform impact analysis.
rickecon/TN-BusTax2024
Data and code for analysis in 2024 Tennessee Business Tax article
rickecon/UN-OG-Training-Submit
A repository for submitting completed exercises from the UN-OG-Training material
rickecon/US_Debt_Stable_2025
Data, code, and images for US debt stabilization simulations from January 2025
rickecon/usempl-plots
Package for creating various plots of US employment and unemployment
rickecon/USempl-Streaks-2025-01
Data, code, and images for analyses in "US Jobs Streak: Now Second Longest in 86 years"