On the Properties of the Synthetic Control Estimator with Many Periods and Many Controls
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- Bruno Ferman, 2019. "On the Properties of the Synthetic Control Estimator with Many Periods and Many Controls," Papers 1906.06665, arXiv.org, revised May 2020.
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