Synthetic Difference-in-Differences

A Difference-In-Differences (DID) Analysis Of Financial Integration And International Trade In ASEAN+5

The Role of Inflation Targeting in Exchange Rate Unification Policy: Difference-in-Differences Approach

 Generally, one of the important issue in open macroeconomics and international finance literature is the innovations of exchange rate regimes, and exchange rate unification policy is one of the most important reforming policies in developing and emerging countries. By considering the experience of other emerging countries for exchange rates unification policy in this study, it will be investig...

Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators

The difference-in-differences (DID) estimator is one of the most popular tools for applied research in economics to evaluate the effects of public interventions and other treatments of interest on some relevant outcome variables. However, it is well-known that the DID estimator is based on strong identifying assumptions. In particular, the conventional DID estimator requires that, in absence of...

What differences make a difference?

Four years ago The Hastings Center initiated a “pluralism project.” That project gave the Center staff a chance to explore one swath of the theoretical literature concerning how members of democratic regimes ought to think about and respond to the differences among themselves. Much of that literature, produced by philosophers like Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, and John Kekes, is wonderfully ...

Cellular Heterogeneity: Do Differences Make a Difference?

A central challenge of biology is to understand how individual cells process information and respond to perturbations. Much of our knowledge is based on ensemble measurements. However, cell-to-cell differences are always present to some degree in any cell population, and the ensemble behaviors of a population may not represent the behaviors of any individual cell. Here, we discuss examples of w...