Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 734-755

  Piatek, Rémi ^a   Pinger, Pia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 84927634998     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2456     Document Type: Article

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