Today I released EcoFin.sty, a LaTeX style for working papers in economics, finance and economic history. It grew out of the template that I use for my own papers. Anyone can use and change it for free.
The paper is one file. One word decides whether it comes out as the working paper, the anonymous copy, the title page or the online appendix. The anonymous copy leaves out the names, the thanks, the e-mail addresses and the ORCID. The author field of the PDF is also empty.
- 1. WriteOne file, standard LaTeX commands
- 2. DiscussCo-authors' notes in the margin, shown or hidden
- 3. SubmitAnonymous copy, title page and appendix from the same file
- 4. ShareWorking paper and arXiv upload
What is in it
Each author is one line. The style arranges one to six of them in the title block. Sections and the appendix can be switched off without deleting them. The title and the headings are set in Geist Serif, the text in Source Serif and the mathematics in Latin Modern. Captions stand above tables and figures, with the notes and sources below them. With invented data, the sample paper estimates
\[ y_{it} = \beta\,\mathit{Treated}_i \times \mathit{Post}_t + \alpha_i + \gamma_t + \varepsilon_{it}. \]
Its Figure 1 shows the same change year by year as an event study. The project page has a short video for each part of the style.
Get it
Download the files and the sample paper from fatih.ai/latex, or take them from GitHub. The style works with LuaLaTeX, XELaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The sample paper shows the main features in six pages. The project page explains each of them.