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I am excited and honored to receive an "Impact Award" from our faculty for my research on economic #growth and the policy impact it created.
linkedin.com/pulse/impact-c…
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Konstantin M. Wacker
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Konstantin M. Wacker
@KM_Wacker
Economist working on #economicgrowth, #growth #econometrics & macro development || Associate prof @UniGroningenFEB || #Firstgen graduate
Groningen, Nederland Katılım Temmuz 2014
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Modern trade economists when they have to cover Heckscher Ohlin be like 👇
Peter Hull@instrumenthull
two-factor authentication has gotten out of control
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#SUERFpolicybrief “When foreign banks bring cash: How financial FDI boosts investment" by Tim de Leeuw and @KM_Wacker (University of Groningen)
📄 tinyurl.com/mbtcnsfc
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@jmwooldridge @clintballinger @sancapraro Isn't the current govt exactly that, one cheap random experiment?
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@clintballinger @sancapraro If only we could get people, firms, and the government to cooperate.
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Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout the new diff-in-diffs but it’s still two-way FE to me.
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Japan's Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan
Zvi Mowshowitz@TheZvi
What is the actual most important chart in the world?
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🙌🏼 We have a new way to estimate interaction terms with panel data 🙌🏼, which is better than the standard approach. #cite
Thread on the idea 👇 , more on implementation to follow (1/6).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ja…
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List of the most common "beautiful conference places" in economics.
Maddie Lee, PhD@m_janelee
academic conferences are crazy because it’s like Let’s go to the most beautiful place in the world and then look at powerpoints for 12 straight hours
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@KhoaVuUmn ...and how they complain about students doing their work with AI instead of working it out the hard way and learn.
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🎁 BONUS:
-) Standard "robust" inference can be applied.
-) Efficiency loss appears small, even with small T.
-) Second step is OLS - much scope for visualizations and other tools.
(6/6)
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🆗 🆒, what about the interaction effects now?
1. If they are time-varying, just add this interaction on top of unit-specific x effects.
2. If they are not time-varying, project unit-specific coefficients on interaction variable in a second step OLS regression.
(5/6)
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@instrumenthull Because we had no records of settler mortality back then.
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The concept of "causality" has been philosophized about since at least the ancient greeks. Why did it take until the 20th century (or so) for it to be formalized and studied mathematically?
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📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
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