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因果状态依赖局部投影AI 解读

State-dependent local projections (LPs) are widely used to study how causal effects vary as a function of economic states, but shock exogeneity alone does not identify this response function. We show that identification follows when the underlying conditional mean is linear in the shock with a state-dependent coefficient, a condition satisfied in canonical micro-macro environments, including first-order perturbation solutions of heterogeneous-agent and macro-finance models.…

动态线性面板模型的 Arellano–Bond LASSO 估计量AI 解读

The Arellano-Bond estimator is a fundamental method for dynamic panel data models, widely used in practice. It can be severely biased when the time series dimension of the data, $T$, is long. The source of the bias is the large degree of overidentification. We propose a simple two-step approach to deal with this problem. The first step applies LASSO to the cross-section data at each time period to select the most informative moment conditions, exploiting the approximately…

稠密测量误差下的网络溢出效应估计AI 解读

This paper analyzes spillover effects in spatial (network) models when the neighborhood (adjacency) matrix is contaminated by measurement error from reporting, aggregation, or disclosure imperfections, leading to inconsistent estimation of network effects. We introduce a regularization framework for the latent network that allows for sparse and/or low-rank structure and accommodates potential correlation between measurement errors and outcomes. We propose two estimators: (i)…

通过经验福利最大化进行时间序列政策选择AI 解读

This paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available data is a multivariate time series. Overcoming challenges unique to time-series setting such as time-varying environments, history-dependent welfare, dynamic causal effects, and statistical dependence, we propose Time-series Empirical Welfare Maximization (T-EWM) methods. We characterize conditions for T-EWM to consistently learn optimal policies conditional or unconditional on the…

可容许误设的 GMM：准贝叶斯方法AI 解读

Structural estimation in economics often makes use of models formulated in terms of moment conditions. While these moment conditions are generally well-motivated, it is often unknown whether the moment restrictions hold exactly. We consider a framework where researchers model their belief about the potential degree of misspecification via a prior distribution and adopt a quasi-Bayesian approach for performing inference on structural parameters. We provide quasi-posterior…

高维空间面板网络的一致有效推断AI 解读

We propose employing a high-dimensional generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator, regularized for dimension reduction and subsequently debiased to correct for shrinkage bias (referred to as a debiased-regularized estimator), for inference on large-scale spatial panel networks. In particular, the network structure, which incorporates a flexible sparse deviation that can be regarded either as a latent component or as a misspecification of a predetermined adjacency matrix,…

动态因果效应中的非线性：如何改善负权重估计的解释？AI 解读

This paper was prepared as a comment on "Dynamic Causal Effects in a Nonlinear World: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by Michal Kolesár and Mikkel Plagborg-Møller. We make three comments, including a novel contribution to the literature, showing how a reasonable economic interpretation can potentially be restored for average-effect estimators with negative weights.

交互固定效应面板模型的投影估计方法AI 解读

This paper introduces a straightforward sieve-based approach for estimating and conducting inference on regression parameters in panel data models with interactive fixed effects. The method's key assumption is that factor loadings can be decomposed into an unknown smooth function of individual characteristics plus an idiosyncratic error term. Our estimator offers advantages over existing approaches by taking a simple partial least squares form, eliminating the need for…

动态网络分位数回归模型AI 解读

We propose a dynamic network quantile regression model to investigate the quantile connectedness using a predetermined network information. We extend the existing network quantile autoregression model of Zhu et al. (2019b) by explicitly allowing the contemporaneous network effects and controlling for the common factors across quantiles. To cope with the endogeneity issue due to simultaneous network spillovers, we adopt the instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR)…