Search Results - subject:"Synthetic Control"

Does financial deregulation boost top incomes? : evidence from the Big Bang

Tanndal, Julia; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …

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Does the Swiss debt brake induce sound federal finances? : a synthetic control analysis

Pfeil, Christian F.; Feld, Lars P. - 2016

effectiveness of the Swiss debt brake by employing the Synthetic Control Method. We find that the introduction of this fiscal rule …

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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...

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

Carvalho, Carlos C.; Masini, Ricardo; Medeiros, Marcelo C. - 2016

compares our proposal with other alternatives such as the differences-in-differences, factor models and the synthetic control … considered. Our methodology is inspired by different branches of the literature such as: the Synthetic Control method, the Global …

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The long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth : evidence from quantitative case studies

Kleis, Mischa; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel - 2016

examination of historical policy documents and using the synthetic control method (SCM), we investigate the evolution of post …

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Quantifying the effects of the CNB's exchange rate commitment : a synthetic control method approach

Opatrny, Matej - 2016

appreciating that were put in place in 2013. I focus its on the impact on output, unemployment, and inflation. I use the synthetic … control method, which allows me to compute the counter-factual development of the Czech economy in the absence of the …

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