bttomio / UGA_thesisdown

Files to reproduce my Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Carry trade effects in developed and developing countries: the cases of Switzerland and Brazil". This thesis was defended on February 15, 2022 at the Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA). I finished the Ph.D. programme in Economis in the Centre for Research in Economics in Grenoble (CREG), which is linked to the Doctoral School in Economics (ED SE).

First, download the code as a .zip file and extract the files to a specific folder.

With the files in this repository, you are able to:

1. Reproduce my thesis manuscript

• Open bttomio-thesis.Rproj
• Open index.Rmd
• Knit (Ctrl + Shitf + k) index.Rmd
• It takes some time to knit the file
• The final document is called _main.pdf, which is located in the docs folder

2. Reproduce my econometric results (Stata and R codes)

• Go to the directory ECONOMETRIC PROCEDURES
• For Chapter 4, use BGVAR_2.4.3(https://github.com/mboeck11/BGVAR)

3. Reproduce my presentation for the thesis committee

• Available here: https://bttomio.github.io/slides/PhDdefense/slides.html
• Code: https://github.com/bttomio/bttomio.github.io/tree/master/slides/PhDdefense

Here is the sessionInfo() output for the manuscript:

R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8       
 [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C              
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_2.0-2 scales_1.1.1     compiler_4.1.2   R6_2.5.1         bookdown_0.24   
 [6] fastmap_1.1.0    htmltools_0.5.2  tools_4.1.2      yaml_2.2.1       rmarkdown_2.11  
[11] knitr_1.36.9     xfun_0.28.10     digest_0.6.29    lifecycle_1.0.1  munsell_0.5.0   
[16] rlang_0.4.12     evaluate_0.14