This talk will discuss the use of a number of Stata commands, some "official" and some user-contributed, in the context of working with time-series and panel data. Testing for endogeneity/exogeneity of regressors, heteroskedasticity in an instrumental variables context, and fitting regression...

In this paper, we investigate the link between optimal level of leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. Using the model of firm's value maximization, we show that as macroeconomic uncertainty increases, captured by an increase in the variability of industrial production or inflation, firms...