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Teaching empirical finance courses: A project on portfolio management
Morley, Bruce - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-8
approach enables the students to apply many of the techniques learnt on this course and other courses such as econometrics, to …
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Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"
Abbring, Jaap H.; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...
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On the Reception of Haavelmo's Econometric Thought
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2012
Trygve Haavelmo's The Probability Approach in Econometrics (1944) has been widely regarded as the foundation document … of modern econometrics. Nevertheless, its significance has been interpreted in widely different ways. Some modern … techniques and a close reading of econometrics articles and textbooks to trace the way in which the economics profession received …
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Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970
Backhouse, Roger E.; Cherrier, Beatrice - 2014
Abstract: This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners, it is suggested that the discipline became...
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The Empirical Economist's Toolkit: From Models to Methods
Panhans, Matthew T.; Singleton, John D. - 2015
wide application of these methods as a \credibility revolution" in econometrics that has nally provided persuasive answers … crisis in econometrics. …
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Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time
Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt the estimator introduced by Semykina and...
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Voluntary turnover: What we measure and what it (really) means
Will, Matthias Georg - 2017
In this paper, we run regression analyses to explain voluntary turnover intentions with data from more than 5,000 employees and with about 250 explanatory variables. The findings of our multi-factor approach highlight the fact that previous empirical research might have over-estimated the impact...
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2017
like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics has since evolved to prioritize the estimation of specific causal effects …
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Concentration of Resources and Economic Growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: REGION 2 (2015) 1, pp. Y17-Y25
In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
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Empirical methods for networks data: Social effects, network formation and measurement error
Advani, Arun; Malde, Bansi - 2014
In many contexts we may be interested in understanding whether direct connections between agents, such as declared friendships in a classroom or family links in a rural village, affect their outcomes. In this paper we review the literature studying econometric methods for the analysis of social...
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