Carvalho, Carlos C.; Masini, Ricardo; Medeiros, Marcelo C. - 2016
We consider a new method to estimate causal effects when a treated unit suffers a shock or an intervention, such as a …, we estimate the average intervention effect on a vector of variables belonging to the treated unit, which is consistent … that these results still hold when the date of the intervention is unknown and must be estimated from the data. Tests for …