Category: Blog

March 22, 2024

Housing Affordability

I recently co-authored a study titled ‘Housing Affordability in Post-Boom Malta: the Role of the Third Sector’ which has been published as an occasional paper under the umbrella of the Foundation for Affordable Housing.

December 1, 2023

Practical Advice on Applied Econometrics

I provide a curated list of papers providing practical advice on several aspects of applied econometrics that should come in handy to students of economics.

June 1, 2023

House Price Growth

Downward pressure on house prices should not be misinterpreted to mean that house prices are expected to decline.

October 26, 2022

Taxation and FDI

Following the publication of EY’s Attractiveness Survey, Who’s Who asked about my views on tax harmonisation pressures, their impact on Malta and FDI.

July 24, 2022

Housing Market Developments

Over the past year, I provided technical expertise to the Grant Thornton-Dhalia collaboration for the development of Selling and Rental House Price Indices and more.

June 22, 2022

Economic outlook amid inflation concerns

Recently shared my views with Who’s Who on the outlook for the Maltese economy and the challenges brought about by high inflation.

June 16, 2022

Economics for Competition Law

Recently delivered training to judges from Ireland, Malta, Spain and other EU member states on economics concepts that underly competition law.

April 16, 2022

When to use logs

In applied econometrics we often observe the use of logs. But others’ choices to log-transform variables do not necessarily mean that you should do the same to yours. Why and when are logs useful?

July 7, 2021

Thinking of majoring in economics?

Non-textbook readings on whether economics is a science, the usefulness of theoretical models and modern empirical methods to disentangle cause and effect.

July 4, 2021

Log transforming variables with zero values

In applied econometrics we often want to log transform variables that have zero values! What can you do?