This paper examines the efficacy of the general-to-specific modeling approach associated with the LSE school of … largely favorable to the general-to-specific approach. In particular, the size of exclusion tests remains close to the nominal …

Hoover and Perez?s results show that the general-to-specific approach performs well if the search for a linear and …

positive). Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to systematically search for country …