From April 4-6, I competed in the University of Chicago’s Econometrics Game in a group with three of my classmates. In this competition, teams are given 12 hours with a dataset to devise and answer a question of economic importance.
We won 2nd place!
Below, you can find this year’s prompt as well as my group’s paper. I hope you find this interesting!
Prompt: Your task is to use the IMF PortWatch daily port activity data to identify and estimate the causal effect of an event of your choice on trade flows. The port activity data and trade estimates can be downloaded from the IMF Portwatch website, which includes a full description of the variables and trade estimates in the .csv file. You may use this or any other publicly available data to answer your question. We recommend you open the data using fread() in the data.table package in R.
Submission:
Andrew Robinson's Blog 
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