Browsing by Keyword "Synthetic control"
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Arco: an artificial counterfactual approach for high-dimensional panel time-series data
2017We consider a new, flexible and easy-to-implement method to estimate causal effects of an intervention on a single treated unit and when a control group is not readily available. We propose a two-step methodology where in ... -
Avaliação do impacto da “Lei dos desmanches” (Lei n. 12.977/2014) na indústria de seguros
2018-12-17Inspirado na revolução empírica que varreu o mundo acadêmico e, em especial, o campo da Economia do Direito, o objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar o impacto da Lei dos Desmanches (Lei 12.977/2014) na indústria de seguros e ... -
Cherry picking with synthetic controls
2016-06-08The synthetic control (SC) method has been recently proposed as an alternative method to estimate treatment e ects in comparative case studies. Abadie et al. [2010] and Abadie et al. [2015] argue that one of the advantages ... -
Ensaios em desenvolvimento e crescimento econômico
2013-06-07This thesis consists of three essays, one being on economic development and the two others on economic growth. The first essay is an investigation into how access to electricity by households affects time allocation of ... -
Financiamento público à indústria de exibição cinematográfica: um estudo de caso no Brasil
2014-05-27This study aims to evaluate the impact of new credit lines to Brazilian movie exhibition industry, one of the existing forms of government support for this sector. The evaluated disbursements, conducted by the Brazilian ... -
Intervenções no mercado de câmbio no Brasil através de leilões de dólares à vista: abordagem via controle sintético
2020-06-16Em meio a uma relativa escassez de divisas no mercado à vista no Brasil,o Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) anunciou em agosto de 2019 uma oferta de dólares à vista, reduzindo a sua reserva internacional, porém mantendo constante ... -
The perils of counterfactual analysis with integrated processes
2017Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing econometric tools to conduct counterfactual analysis with aggregate data when a "treated" unit suffers an intervention, such as a policy change, and there is no ... -
Revisiting the synthetic control estimator
2016-06-16VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL. -
Stock performance of Brazilian sectors after the 2014 recession: a synthetic control approach
2020-01-16Identifying whether recessions are caused by domestic or external factors demands methodological rigor on choosing the most appropriate quantitative approach. The synthetic control method has been used to evaluate drivers ... -
Three essays on vocational education in Brazil
2017-07-29O ensino profissionalizante vem sendo apontado cada vez mais como uma solução alternativa no combate ao desemprego juvenil, especialmente àqueles que saem da escola direto para o mercado de trabalho. As evidências empíricas, ... -
Where did inflation targeting matter?
2018-10We investigate the effects of inflation targeting (IT) adoption on industrial economies by comparing each inflation targeter country (ITer) with its synthetic control, defined as the convex combination of non-IT countries ... -
Why do small powers go to big wars?: the Colombian participation in the Korean conflict (1950-1953)
2017-05-16This work addresses the determinants of the decisions made by small powers to fight alongside great powers in major conflicts. When faced with the request from a great power to participate in wars, some peripheral countries ...
