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吸纳就业还是推离劳动力市场？顺周期失业救助调整的影响AI 解读

Abstract We exploit an unanticipated labor market reform to estimate the effects of procyclical changes in long-term unemployment assistance (UA). In July 2012, Spain raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference-in-differences design, we document that shorter benefits caused (1) shorter unemployment duration, especially among younger workers; (2) higher labor force exit and other programs’ take-up, especially among older workers;…

This Special Issue celebrates the seminal contributions of Philip G. Wright to causal inference in economics and puts them in a modern perspective. At its core is a reproduction of Online Appendix B in Wright’s 1928 book The Tariff on Animal and Vegetable Oils.1 This book deals with demand for and supply of oils and butter. In its Online Appendix B, Wright made several fundamental contributions to causal inference. He introduced a structural equation model of demand and…

拓展工具变量方法的适用范围AI 解读

Summary Since Philip Wright’s proposal of the linear instrumental variables (IV) estimator in 1928, the scope of application of IV models has greatly expanded. There are now nonlinear IV models in use with both additive and nonadditive latent variables, employing both semiparametric and nonparametric specifications. A notable feature of Wright’s linear IV estimator is that it is applicable to incomplete models that leave the genesis of endogenous explanatory variables…

公式型工具变量的设计型识别：综述AI 解读

Summary Many studies in economics use instruments or treatments that combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables via a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments and measures of social or spatial spillovers. We review recent econometric tools for this setting, which leverage the assignment process of the exogenous shocks and the structure of the formula for identification. We compare this design-based approach with conventional…

计量经济学中的因果推断与数据融合AI 解读

Summary Learning about cause and effect is arguably the main goal in applied econometrics. In practice, the validity of these causal inferences is contingent on a number of critical assumptions regarding the type of data that has been collected, and the substantive knowledge that is available about the phenomenon under investigation. For instance, unobserved confounding factors threaten the internal validity of estimates; data availability is often limited to nonrandom,…

动态离散博弈中高效且收敛的序贯伪似然估计AI 解读

Abstract We propose a new sequential Efficient Pseudo-Likelihood (k-EPL) estimator for dynamic discrete choice games of incomplete information. k-EPL considers the joint behaviour of multiple players simultaneously, as opposed to individual responses to other agents’ equilibrium play. This, in addition to reframing the problem from conditional choice probability (CCP) space to value function space, yields a computationally tractable, stable, and efficient estimator. We show…

网络干扰下的政策定向配置AI 解读

Abstract This article studies the problem of optimally allocating treatments in the presence of spillover effects, using information from a (quasi-)experiment. I introduce a method that maximizes the sample analogue of average social welfare when spillovers occur. I construct semi-parametric welfare estimators with known and unknown propensity scores and cast the optimization problem into a mixed-integer linear program, which can be solved using off-the-shelf algorithms. I…

重印：有限欠识别AI 解读

I adapt the Generalised Method of Moments to deal with nonlinear models in which a finite number of isolated parameter values satisfy the moment conditions. I also study the closely related class of first-order underidentified models, whose expected Jacobian is rank deficient but not necessarily zero. In both cases, my proposed procedures exploit the underidentification structure to yield parameter estimators and underidentification tests within a standard asymptotically…

通过杠杆效应识别波动率风险价格AI 解读

In asset pricing models with stochastic volatility, uncertainty about volatility affects risk premia through two channels: aversion to decreasing returns and aversion to increasing volatility. We analyze the identification of and robust inference for structural parameters measuring investors’ aversions to these risks: the return risk price and the volatility risk price. In the presence of a leverage effect (instantaneous causality between the asset return and its…

函数型生态推断AI 解读

In this paper, we consider the problem of ecological inference when one observes the conditional distributions of Y|W and Z|W from aggregate data and attempts to infer the conditional distribution of Y|Z without observing Y and Z in the same sample. First, we show that this problem can be transformed into a linear equation involving operators for which, under suitable regularity assumptions, least squares solutions are available. We then propose the use of the least squares…

平稳向量自回归模型中的长期风险AI 解读

This paper introduces a local-to-unity/small sigma model for stationary processes with long-range persistence and non-negligible long-run prediction and estimation risks. The model represents a process containing unobserved short and long-run components measured on different time scales. The short-run component is defined in calendar time, while the long-run component evolves in rescaled time with ultra-long units. We develop estimation and long-run prediction methods for…

IV 回归中的外生性检验与弱识别：渐近理论及点估计AI 解读

This paper provides new insights on exogeneity tests in linear IV models and their use for estimation, when identification fails or may not be strong. We make two main contributions. First, we show that Durbin–Wu–Hausman (DWH) and Revankar–Hartley (RH) exogeneity tests have correct level asymptotically, even when the first-stage coefficient matrix (which controls identification) is rank-deficient. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions under which these tests are…

利用大量辅助统计量进行模拟估计与长期动态分析AI 解读

The existing asymptotic theory for estimators obtained by simulated minimum distance does not cover situations in which the number of components of the auxiliary statistics (or number of matched “moments”) is large — typically larger than the sample size. We establish the consistency of the simulated minimum distance estimator in this situation and derive its asymptotic distribution. Our estimator is easy to implement and allows us to exploit all the informational content of…

链式双重差分AI 解读

This paper studies the identification, estimation, and inference of long-term (binary) treatment effect parameters when balanced panel data is not available, or consists of only a subset of the available data. We develop a new estimator: the chained difference-in-differences, which leverages the overlapping structure of many unbalanced panel data sets. This approach consists in aggregating a collection of short-term treatment effects estimated on multiple incomplete panels.…

通过相关性的多重检验正则化股票收益协方差矩阵AI 解读

This paper develops a large-scale inference approach for the regularization of stock return covariance matrices. The framework allows for the presence of heavy tails and multivariate GARCH-type effects of unknown form among the stock returns. The approach involves simultaneous testing of all pairwise correlations, followed by setting non-statistically significant elements to zero. This adaptive thresholding is achieved through sign-based Monte Carlo resampling within…

期限结构模型中风险溢价的识别稳健推断AI 解读

We propose identification robust statistics for testing hypotheses on the risk premia in dynamic affine term structure models. We do so using the moment equation specification proposed in Adrian et al. (2013). Statistical inference based on their three-stage estimator requires knowledge of the risk factors’ quality and can be misleading when the β’s are weak, which results when sampling errors are of comparable order of magnitude as the risk factor loadings. We extend the…

混合识别强度矩条件模型的效率界AI 解读

Moment condition models with mixed identification strength are models that are point identified but with estimating moment functions that are allowed to drift to 0 uniformly over the parameter space. Even though identification fails in the limit, depending on how slow the moment functions vanish, consistent estimation is possible. Existing estimators such as the generalized method of moment (GMM) estimator exhibit a pattern of nonstandard or even heterogeneous rate of…

针对正态混合备择的得分型检验AI 解读

Testing normality against discrete normal mixtures is complex because some parameters turn increasingly underidentified along alternative ways of approaching the null, others are inequality constrained, and several higher-order derivatives become identically 0. These problems make the maximum of the alternative model log-likelihood function numerically unreliable. We propose score-type tests asymptotically equivalent to the likelihood ratio as the largest of two simple…

具有大量弱工具变量的二元响应模型AI 解读

ABSTRACT This paper considers an endogenous binary response model with many weak instruments. We employ a control function approach and a regularization scheme to obtain better estimation results for the endogenous binary response model in the presence of many weak instruments. Two consistent and asymptotically normally distributed estimators are provided, each of which is called a regularized conditional maximum likelihood estimator (RCMLE) and a regularized nonlinear least…

美国货币政策与均衡不确定性AI 解读

ABSTRACT In this paper, I investigate the stance of the US monetary policy in the postwar period. To this end, I show that two features are key: a rich structural model and a parameterization of the indeterminate solution that ensures a sufficient exploration of the indeterminacy region during the estimation procedure. Therefore, I estimate a medium‐scale model on the US macroeconomic data using a novel solution method to allow for indeterminacy. The evidence of a passive…

菲利普斯曲线的断点：来自面板数据的证据AI 解读

ABSTRACT We revisit the Phillips curve, applying new Bayesian panel methods with structural breaks to US and EU disaggregate data. Our approach lets us estimate both the number and timing of breaks and to determine the existence of clusters of industries, cities, or countries whose Phillips curves display similar patterns. We find evidence of a flattening for US sectoral data and among EU countries, particularly poorer ones. Evidence of flattening is weaker for MSA‐level…

以大型因子增广 VAR 分析企业上下游与共同冲击AI 解读

ABSTRACT We evaluate the roles of upstream (supplier‐to‐user), downstream (user‐to‐supplier), and common factor shock transmission across firms by deriving interfirm networks and common factors from US equities over 1989–2017. We overcome the econometric challenges of estimating the large factor‐augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) system by developing two alternative approaches: one prioritizing computational efficiency and the other providing the full posterior…

保序子群选择AI 解读

Abstract Given a sample of covariate–response pairs, we consider the subgroup selection problem of identifying a subset of the covariate domain where the regression function exceeds a predetermined threshold. We introduce a computationally feasible approach for subgroup selection in the context of multivariate isotonic regression based on martingale tests and multiple testing procedures for logically structured hypotheses. Our proposed procedure satisfies a non-asymptotic,…

秩变换子抽样：多次数据拆分与可交换 p 值的推断AI 解读

Abstract Many testing problems are readily amenable to randomized tests, such as those employing data splitting. However, despite their usefulness in principle, randomized tests have obvious drawbacks. Firstly, two analyses of the same dataset may lead to different results. Secondly, the test typically loses power because it does not fully utilize the entire sample. As a remedy to these drawbacks, we study how to combine the test statistics or p-values resulting from…