Posts
Supercharge Claude with Brave Search: A Windows Setup Guide
A short guide for Windows users to integrate Brave Search capabilities into Claude Desktop using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Launch of {wihantemplates}
The launch of my first R package comprising--hopefully, one day--a suite of templates for the creation documents in R Markdown which I’ve come to use on a regular basis. It marks the release of {su_dissertation}, a template for creating theses and dissertations for students at Stellenbosch University.
Scraping International Investment Agreement Data
Comprehensive and up-to-date data on international investment agreements (IIAs) concluded between (groups of) countries are hard to come by, making it difficult to study their effects on bilateral investment flows. In this post, I propose and describe a simple approach to obtain and manipulate data from UNCTAD's IIA Mapping Project using R.
CPT to BRU: A (Very) Cursory Google Flights Analysis
Google Flights is a useful platform with which to find the cheapest flights for a given trip. However, a user like me could find it difficult to peruse prices for return flights across multiple dimensions simultaneously. I capture information from the platform's "Date Grid" and perform some very simple eyeballing.
Are humans rational?
The question of human rationality has been debated since time immemorial. In recent decades, neuroscientific and behavioural evidence seem to suggest that people are not the paragons of rationality as we might have once believed.
The Benefits and Unintended Costs of Airline Alliances
The New Institutional Economics provides scholars with a useful framework with which to perform comparative institutional analyses. The notion of transaction costs is particularly valuable when comparing different institutional arrangements, such as hybrid organisational structures.