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Revisiting the synthetic control estimator
(2016-06-16)
VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL.
Did the new Law for State-owned Firms affect those that are publicly traded?A nova Lei das Estatais afetou as empresas estatais listadas na bolsa?
(Lociedade Brasileira de Finanças, 2020)
Cherry picking with synthetic controls
(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 ...
The fertility-inhibiting effect of mosquitoes: Socio-economic differences in response to the Zika crisis in Colombia
We estimated the impact of the Zika virus outbreak on birth rates and demand for health care services in
Colombia. Our analysis exploits the variation in the level of natural protection against mosquito-
transmitted ...
Arco: an artificial counterfactual approach for high-dimensional panel time-series data
(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 ...
Identificação de uma malha de mistura utilizando um algoritmo de evolução diferencial
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCornelio ProcopioBrasilEngenharia ElétricaUTFPR, 2016-11-08)
Industrial processes have huge importance and highlight in the economic scenario. The extent to which become more complex and dynamic, it is essential that a whole range of new technologies to be used to achieve the ...
The perils of counterfactual analysis with integrated processes
(2017)
Recently, 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 ...
Does the market model provide a good counterfactual for event studies in finance?
(2017)
We provide a common framework that relates traditional event study estimation methods in finance with a modern approach for causal event studies. This framework is called synthetic portfolio and is a particular case of ...
Do trade agreements contribute to the decline in labor share? Evidence from Latin American countries
(World Development (ISSN 1873-5991), 2024)
In this paper, we explore the role of trade in the evolution of labor share in Latin American countries (LAC). We use trade agreements with large economies (US, EU, and China) to capture the effect of sharp changes in ...
Using the Synthetic Control Method to Analyze the Effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol to Reduce CO2, CH4 and N2O Emissions in Spain
This article examines the effect of the Kyoto Protocol in Spain, specifically the effectiveness of the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol (kp) on reducing CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions in Spain is studied. For this purpose, it ...