MAINT: anaconda, standard readme, bibtex

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
-# lecture-dle
+# Dynamic Linear Economies
 
-Dynamic Linear Economies
+This website presents a set of lectures on dynamic linear economies and tools needed for this class of economic models.
+
+## Jupyter notebooks
+
+Jupyter notebook versions of each lecture are available for download
+via the website.
+
+## Contributions
+
+To comment on the lectures please add to or open an issue in the issue tracker (see above).
+
+We welcome pull requests!  
+
+Please read the [QuantEcon style guide](https://manual.quantecon.org/intro.html) first, so that you can match our style.

environment.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ channels:
   - default
 dependencies:
   - python=3.11
-  - anaconda=2023.09
+  - anaconda=2024.02
   - pip
   - pip:
     - jupyter-book==0.15.1

lectures/_config.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ latex:
 sphinx:
   extra_extensions: [sphinx_multitoc_numbering, sphinxext.rediraffe, sphinx_tojupyter, sphinxcontrib.youtube, sphinx.ext.todo, sphinx_exercise, sphinx_togglebutton, sphinx.ext.intersphinx, sphinx_reredirects]
   config:
+    bibtex_reference_style: author_year
     nb_mime_priority_overrides: [
        # HTML
        ['html', 'application/vnd.jupyter.widget-view+json', 10],

lectures/smoothing_tax.md

@@ -606,14 +606,13 @@ class TaxSmoothingExample:
 
         fig, ax = plt.subplots()
         ax.set_title('Cumulative return path (complete markets)')
-        line1 = ax.plot(np.arange(N), self.RT_path)[0]
+        line1 = ax.plot(np.arange(N), self.RT_path, color='blue')[0]
         c1 = line1.get_color()
         ax.set_xlabel('Periods')
         ax.set_ylabel('Cumulative return', color=c1)
 
         ax_ = ax.twinx()
-        ax_._get_lines.prop_cycler = ax._get_lines.prop_cycler
-        line2 = ax_.plot(np.arange(N), self.g_path, ls='--')[0]
+        line2 = ax_.plot(np.arange(N), self.g_path, ls='--', color='green')[0]
         c2 = line2.get_color()
         ax_.set_ylabel('Government expenditures', color=c2)