Time-series estimation of the effects of natural experiments

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 527-566

  White, Halbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ECONOMETRICS; GRANGER NON CAUSALITY; NATURAL EXPERIMENTS; TIME SERIES ESTIMATION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747883236     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2005.07.013     Document Type: Article

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