Partial Identification and Inference for Dynamic Models and Counterfactuals
Partial Identification and Inference for Dynamic Models and Counterfactuals
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动态模型和反事实的部分识别和推理
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3535147
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
Lucas Lima
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作者:
Myrto Kalouptsidi;Y. Kitamura;Eduardo Souza;Lucas Lima
We provide a general framework for investigating partial identification of structural dynamic discrete choice models and their counterfactuals, along with uniformly valid inference procedures. In doing so, we derive sharp bounds for the model parameters, counterfactual behavior, and low-dimensional outcomes of interest, such as the average welfare effects of hypothetical policy interventions. We characterize the properties of the sets analytically and show that when the target outcome of interest is a scalar, its identified set is an interval whose endpoints can be calculated by solving well-behaved constrained optimization problems via standard algorithms. We obtain a uniformly valid inference procedure by an appropriate application of subsampling. To illustrate the performance and computational feasibility of the method, we consider both a Monte Carlo study of firm entry/exit, and an empirical model of export decisions applied to plant-level data from Colombian manufacturing industries. In these applications, we demonstrate how the identified sets shrink as we incorporate alternative model restrictions, providing intuition regarding the source and strength of identification.
DOI:
10.3982/ecta14478
发表时间:
2018
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arXiv: Statistics Theory
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作者:
Y. Kitamura;J. Stoye
通讯作者:
J. Stoye
DOI:
10.1257/mic.20150216
发表时间:
2020
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Microeconomics
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Adams A
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Adams A