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Is spatial bootstrapping a panacea for valid inference?
Klarl, Torben - 2013
Bootstrapping methods have so far been rarely used to evaluate spatial data sets. Based on an extensive Monte Carlo study we find that also for spatial, cross-sectional data, the wild bootstrap test proposed by Davidson and Flachaire (2008) based on restricted residuals clearly outperforms...
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What happens when econometrics and psychometrics collide? : an example using the PISA data
Jerrim, John Peter; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; … - 2017
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are misunderstood by applied researchers, who sometimes fail to take their complex...
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Causality in econometric modeling : from theory to structural causal modeling
Mouchart, Michel; Orsi, Renzo; Wunsch, Guillaume J. - 2020
This paper examines different approaches for assessing causality as typically followed in econometrics and proposes a …-friendly simulation and information-theory based approaches. Finally, in a constructive perspective, structural causal modeling (SCM) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170696
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(Don't) walk this way : the econometrics of crosswalks
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2024
It is increasingly common in empirical research to merge data sets containing different units of observation. When the units are not nested, a crosswalk specifying how the units from one data source are allocated to the units of the other is needed. Unfortunately, most crosswalks are ad hoc, a...
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An application of econophysics to the history of economic thought : the analysis of texts from the frequency of appearance of key words
Trincado, Estrella; Vindel, José María - 2015
This article poses a new methodology applying the statistical analysis to the economic literature. This analysis has never been used in the history of economic thought, albeit it may open up new possibilities and provide us with further explanations so as to reconsider theoretical issues. With...
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Revisiting the great ratios hypothesis
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2022
The idea that certain economic variables are roughly constant in the long-run is an old one. Kaldor described them as stylized facts, whereas Klein and Kosobud labelled them great ratios. While such ratios are widely adopted in theoretical models in economics as conditions for balanced growth,...
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Philosophy of Austrian economics - extended cut
Linsbichler, Alexander - 2021
methodological characteristics of Austrian economics: Austrian action theory and interpretative understanding, a relatively …
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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 … theory and data. Others credit Haavelmo with an approach that focuses on statistical adequacy rather than theoretical …
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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970
Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2015 - Version 1.12
theory than was previously the case. Discussing new types of applied work, the changing context of applied work, and new …
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Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc
Zhang, Jialin; McAleer, Michael - 2013
econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI …
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