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Pesaran, M. Hashem; Timmermann, Allan - 2004

This paper considers the problems facing decision-makers using econometric models in real time. It identifies the key stages involved and highlights the role of automated systems in reducing the effect of data snooping. It sets out many choices that researchers face in construction of automated...

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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services

Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022

In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...

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Sparse production networks

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Firm-to-firm connections in domestic and international production networks play a fundamental role in economic outcomes. Firm heterogeneity and the sparse nature of firm-to-firm connections implicitly discipline network structure. We find that a large group of well-established statistical...

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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

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Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...

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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?

Veen, Tom van - 2020

Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …

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Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? : lessons from ordoliberalism

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James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source...

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Partially adaptive econometric methods and vertically integrated majors in the oil and gas industry

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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices : a non-technical guide

Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

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Spotlight on spatial environmental policy spillovers : an econometric analysis of wastewater treatment in Mexican municipalities

Hecker, Lutz Philip; Wätzold, Frank; Markwardt, Gunther - 2018

econometrics to explain differences in wastewater treatment. Our main finding is that a municipal administration is more likely to …

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