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We propose a new specification test to assess the validity of the judge leniency design. We characterize a set of sharp testable implications, which exploit all the relevant information in the observed data distribution to detect violations of the judge leniency design assumptions. The proposed...
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The extant literature predicts market returns with "simple" models that use only a few parameters. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we theoretically prove that simple models severely understate return predictability compared to "complex" models in which the number of parameters exceeds the...
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. Efficient estimators and uniformly valid confidence intervals for regression coefficients on target variables (e.g., treatment … or policy variable) in a high-dimensional approximately sparse regression model, for average treatment effect (ATE) and … heteroscedastic and non-Gaussian errors are implemented. Moreover, joint/ simultaneous confidence intervals for regression …
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of group-level unobservables, standard quantile regression techniques are inconsistent in our setting even if the …, consisting of group-by-group quantile regression followed by two-stage least squares. Using the Bahadur representation of …
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Treatment effect estimates in regression discontinuity (RD) designs are often sensitive to the choice of bandwidth and … polynomial order, the two important ingredients of widely used local regression methods. While Imbens and Kalyanaraman (2012) and … of the local regression RD estimator as the criterion to guide polynomial order selection. We show in Monte Carlo …
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We consider a linear panel event-study design in which unobserved confounds may be related both to the outcome and to the policy variable of interest. We provide sufficient conditions to identify the causal effect of the policy by exploiting covariates related to the policy only through the...
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This paper examines a general class of inferential problems in semiparametric and nonparametric models defined by conditional moment restrictions. We construct tests for the hypothesis that at least one element of the identified set satisfies a conjectured (Banach space) "equality" and/or (a...
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statistics and proposed inference methods are based on the minimum of the generalized method of moments (GMM) objective function … have good power relative to unrestricted GMM. …
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