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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Empirical Economics"”.
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Essays in Empirical Economics
This thesis consists of three essays in empirical economics. The first two essays explore whether and how trade policies impact individual firms decision-making and how these decisions affect economic growth in developing countries. Specifically, in the first essay, I study whether improved access …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… policy areas covered by the agreement. While the empirical trade literature has shed considerable light on the trade-creating ability of RTAs (Grant and Lambert, 2008), much less is known about why these agreements are so successful. In this study, we draw on a new database from the World Trade …
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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation: Essays on Microfinance, Energy Access and Limits to the Gold Standard in Empirical Economics
… with methodological contributions on how empirical economics research can contribute to effective policymaking. Chapter 1 reviews the existing experimental evidence on microfinance. We use this deep literature to highlight challenges in generalizing from empirical research. Chapter 2 and 3 …
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High-Dimensional Statistics for Causal Inference and Panel Data
… They apply broadly to panel data problems across empirical economics—including in labor, development, and industrial organization—where standard fixed effects estimators may fail. The first chapter identifies a previously overlooked source of bias in fixed effects panel estimators, which I term …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
… one of the most well-established findings in empirical economics. We also observe a significant (and uncosted) corresponding increase in expenditure on outlays and find no evidence that delayed exit from unemployment payments resulted in higher wages upon return-to-work. Third, we turn to the …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
… one of the most well-established findings in empirical economics. We also observe a significant (and uncosted) corresponding increase in expenditure on outlays and find no evidence that delayed exit from unemployment payments resulted in higher wages upon return-to-work. Third, we turn to the …
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The Economic Theories of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1923-1945
… perspective on the intricate interplay between economics, politics, history, and epistemology, which lay at the heart of the Institute’s endeavours.