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glmhdfe

Julian Hinz — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The R package glmhdfe implements a fast estimation procedure of generalized linear models with high dimensional fixed effects. The package makes use of a convenient property of some combinations of error term distributions and link functions, where the fixed effects have — conditional on all other estimated parameters — an explicit solution.

Install from GitHub via the remotes package:


install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("julianhinz/R_glmhdfe")

For more details and usage examples check out the R_glmhdfe GitHub repository and the technical note.

gravity.distances

Julian Hinz — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The R package gravity.distances provides distances between geographic entities — such as countries, US states or Canadian provinces — that are consistent with the gravity equation in international economics.

To install the package in R, simply run the following commands:


install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("julianhinz/gravity.distances")

For more details and usage examples check out the respective GitHub repositories:

R package: gravity.distances
Dataset repository: gravity.distances_data

mies.sty

Julian Hinz — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

mies.sty example.

mies.sty is a clean LaTeX article style focused on clarity, spacing, and classic design — inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s less is more.

It comes in two variants:

mies.sty: full-featured for math-heavy papers with tables and figures
minimies.sty: stripped-down for short drafts and clean submissions

Start your article like this:


\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{mies} % or \usepackage{minimies}

Features include improved spacing, clean typography, longtable and TikZ support, and a custom macro set for academic writing.

A complete example is included in example.tex, featuring The Economics of Time Travel by Doc Brown et al.

Get it from GitHub or try it on Overleaf.

luhmann.sty

Julian Hinz — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

luhmann.sty example title slide.

luhmann.sty is a sleek LaTeX Beamer style for academic and professional presentations.
It builds on latex-presentation by Pierre-Olivier Michaillat.

Include luhmann.sty in a directory and use it in a presentation with:


\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usepackage{luhmann}

For a full example, see the fictional Q-Branch briefing included in example.tex.

More on GitHub or open directly in Overleaf.

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Fast Estimation of GLMs with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects

Julian Hinz — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In this note we describe how the ﬁrst-order conditions of ﬁxed effects in certain generalized linear models display a very convenient form. This can be exploited to implement a very fast GLM estimator with high-dimensional ﬁxed effects, as we do in the R package glmhdfe.