TikZ Cookbook for Diagram in Economics: with Step-by-Step Illustration

Front Cover
Chiu Yu Ko - 629 pages

Economists present their arguments in three different types of arguments: verbal, graphical, and mathematical.

If you flip over introductory economic textbooks, you will notice that analysis is usually done based on verbal argument and diagrams. Even for intermediate and advanced textbooks, you will notice that the difference is the mathematical argument -- diagrams are still useful. This is also true for academic research.

However, drawing a nice diagram is not easy. Standard software is not good for drawing economic diagrams. Either it is too simple or it is too professional. One nice drawing software is the TikZ package in LaTeX . However, it is a drawing programming so that there is a steep learning curve. This is the reason that I write this book.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Common terms and phrases

1<scriptsize apple Axis draw Axis draw[thick axises We draw begin1documentl usepackage1tikzl begin1tikzpicturel begin1tikzpicturel end1tikzpicturel Step begin1tikzpicturel[scale=0.8 budget line child1node(2)[solid child1node[solid circle radius 0.1 create the environment Creating Tikz picture Curve draw curve that goes curve We draw distance=25mm documentclass1articlel begin1documentl usepackage1tikzl downward-sloping line draw a curve draw a downward-sloping draw a vertical draw very thick draw[blue draw[dashed draw[dotted Drawing game Drawing Horizontal Drawing paths edge bend left edge from parent edge w1 end1tikzpicturel end1documentl Figure environment with\begin{tikzpicture environment with\begin{tikzpicture}and end{tikzpicture Game Tree going to draw Horizontal and Vertical horizontal arrow line horizontal line indifference curve line from 0,0 line that goes line We draw node left node right node styles node[above node[above=3pt node[below left node[below=3pt node[house node node[man node node[woman node]1l child1node[hollow Origin for person Output for Listing parent node parent node[above]1$C$l path m1 proposes to w1 Signaling Game Tikz picture environment upward-sloping line vertical arrow line Vertical axises

About the author

Dr. Chiu Yu Ko received his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Boston College in 2012. Before moving to US, he obtained his Master of Philosophy in Economics and Bachelor of Business Administration in Insurance, Finance and Actuarial Analysis from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He joined Department of Economics, the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor in 2012.

Dr. Ko's research focuses on game theory with application in resource allocation, industrial organization and political economy. For resource allocation, he works on problem of cost sharing. For industrial organization, he specializes on innovation and platform competition. For political economy, he is interested in the design of political system. 

Bibliographic information

TitleTikZ Cookbook for Diagram in Economics: with Step-by-Step Illustration
AuthorChiu Yu Ko
PublisherChiu Yu Ko
Length629 pages
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan