Welcome to my website !

My name is Eric Scheffel. I'm an economist specialising in macroeconomics (in particular monetary macroeconomics), economic policy, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, and macroeconometric analysis. Part of my studies also involve applying numerical methods to economic problems, using matrix algebra environments, such as Matlab and Gauss or traditional programming languages suitable for scientific problem-solving such as Fortran and C++ . I am a big fan of the Python programming language and make heavy use of the Scipy/Numpy numerical libraries for Python. I also support and use open-source software and employ Ubuntu/Linux or Debian/Linux as my main productivity environment.

Up until recently, I have worked at the Virtual Microdata Laboratory at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) , where I have both supported and also undertaken economic and statistical analyses using Micro Data. As a result of the nature of that employment, I have increasingly made use of more data-relevant tools such as Stata , SAS and GnuR , but have also looked into ways of automating data-analysis, data-cleaning and data-reporting by means of auto-generated graphs, tables and reported statistical computations. Working in the VML has also equipped me with invaluable experience in aspects of data security and confidentiality as well as using the latest meta-data standards, such as SDMX and DDI. From September 2011 onwards, I will be working as a teaching fellow at the Nottingham Ningbo University in China.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the economics section of Cardiff Business School (at Cardiff University  in the UK) and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick in the UK. In my spare time I run, read philosophy, investigate the latest web technologies and employ web applications for web designs to impress.

Send me an email:

eric.scheffel at nottingham dot edu dot cn

or

emscheffel at 69.64.46.102

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