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Firm-Level Financial Resources and Environmental Spills
Cohn, Jonathan - 2018
important role in their ability to mitigate environmental risk …
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Weathering the Storm : Supply Chains and Climate Risk
Castro-Vincenzi, Juanma; Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize how firms structure supply chains under climate risk. Using new data on the universe of firm …-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we show that firms diversify sourcing locations, and suppliers exposed to climate risk charge … sourcing under climate risk. Firms diversify identical inputs from suppliers across space, trading off the probability of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512072
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The Behavioralist Goes Door-To-Door : Understanding Household Technological Diffusion Using a Theory-Driven Natural Field Experiment
Giaccherini, Matilde - 2019
This paper uses a field experiment to estimate behavioral parameters from a structural model of residential adoption of technology. As our model includes both economic and psychological factors, we are able to identify the role of prices, social norms, social pressure, and curiosity on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480119
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On the Informativeness of Descriptive Statistics for Structural Estimates
Andrews, Isaiah - 2018
We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is valid under some models. The researcher also reports descriptive statistics γ̂ that estimate features γ of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480868
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On Heckits, LATE, and Numerical Equivalence
Kline, Patrick M. - 2018
Structural econometric methods are often criticized for being sensitive to functional form assumptions. We study parametric estimators of the local average treatment effect (LATE) derived from a widely used class of latent threshold crossing models and show they yield LATE estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453238
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics : How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
Angrist, Joshua - 2010
, Education, Environment, Labor, Health, and Public Finance, but are still rare in Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462856
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Comparing IV With Structural Models : What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
Heckman, James J. - 2009
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463941
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To Hold Out or Not to Hold Out
Schorfheide, Frank - 2013
trial, we provide a formal rationale for the use of a holdout sample in an environment in which data mining poses an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459096
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Economic Growth and the Environment
Grossman, Gene M. - 1994
Using data assembled by the Global Environmental Monitoring System we examine the reduced-form relationship between various environmental indicators and the level of a country's per capita income. Our study covers four types of indicators: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474270
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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium
Carbone, Jared C. - 2010
We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem health and the market economy from which damage to these ecosystems stems as an integrated system. We find that willingness to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are...
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