Synthetic Control and Inference
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- Ruoyao Shi & Jinyong Hahn, 2016. "Synthetic Control and Inference," Working Papers 201802, University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics, revised Nov 2017.
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synthetic control; permutation test; symmetry;All these keywords.
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