Causal effects of monetary shocks: Semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 725-747

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Kuersteiner, Guido M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80053948591     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00109     Document Type: Article

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