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A central question in applied research is to estimate the effect of an exogenous intervention or shock on an outcome. The intervention can affect the outcome and controls on impact and over time. Moreover, there can be subsequent feedback between outcomes, controls and the intervention. Many of...
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The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...
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propensity score matching, we find that the emergency aid program had only moderately positive effects on the confidence of the …
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nonparametric matching approach is applied to investigate this question empirically. It turns out that the subsidized Eastern German …
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effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practical concern is the effects of … fundamental problem of all evaluation studies without good knowledge of the relationship between potential outcomes and the …
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By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …
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We develop a flexible semiparametric time series estimator that is then used to assess the causal effect of monetary policy interventions on macroeconomic aggregates. Our estimator captures the average causal response to discrete policy interventions in a macro-dynamic setting, without the need...
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We present new evidence on the impact of more generous unemployment insurance (UI) on workers' ability to find jobs better suited to their skills. Using Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data, we find the UI extensions introduced in the U.S. improved the quality of worker-job matches....
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