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    • Arco: an artificial counterfactual approach for high-dimensional panel time-series data 

      Carvalho, Carlos Viana de; Masini, Ricardo Pereira; Medeiros, Marcelo C.
      2017
      We 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 ...

    • Cherry picking with synthetic controls 

      Ferman, Bruno; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier; Possebom, Vítor Augusto
      2016-06-08
      The 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 ...

    • Competition in cascades 

      Moita, Rodrigo Menon Simões; Monte, Daniel
      2017
      Hydroelectric generation is the main source of energy production in many countries. When firms operate in the same river, or in cascades, the output of an upstream firm is the input of its downstream rival. We build a ...

    • Optimal paternalistic health and human capital policies 

      Arbex, Marcelo Aarestru; Mattos, Enlinson
      2018-02-16
      We study optimal human and health linear policies when there is a paternalistic motive to overcome present bias problems of agents with heterogeneous cognitive skills. The paternalistic intervention rewards individuals for ...