Assessing Economic Liberalization Episodes: A Synthetic Control Approach

By Andreas Billmeier, T. Nannicini. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013

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Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method (2014, methodology): “Other recent papers using this method include Campos and Kinoshita (2010) on foreign direct investment, Lee (2011) on inflation targeting, Billmeier and Nannicini (2013) on trade liberalization, and Acemoglu et al. (2014) on political connections.”
The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment* (2019, background): “Billmeier and Nannicini (2013), in particular, also use the synthetic control approach to study the impact of economic liberalizations.”
Synthetic Control Methods: Never Use All Pre-Intervention Outcomes Together With Covariates (2015, methodology): “Note: Calculations are based on data from Billmeier and Nannicini (2013). The first column reports the four covariates, columns two to four report predictor weights v (in percent) for the three estimators (explained below), columns five to seven report respective covariate values for the pre-treatme”
Evaluating the Economic Effects of Flat Tax Reforms Using Synthetic Control Methods (2016, methodology): “Billmeier and Nannicini (2013) face the trade-off between the common support attained by using the regional pool versus the power of the test attained by using the global pool.”
Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets (2018, background): “…hypotheses framework described by Anderson (2008) to SCM, is important, for example, to evaluate political reforms (Billmeier & Nannicini (2009), Billmeier & Nannicini (2013), Carrasco et al. (2014), Jinjarak et al. (2013), Sanso-Navarro (2011)) that generally affect multiple outcomes…”
The economic consequences of Hugo Chavez: A synthetic control analysis (2016, methodology): “And of course the synthetic control method has seen numerous recent applications including affirmative action (Hinrichs, 2012), compulsory voting (Fowler, 2013), economic liberalization (Billmeier and Nannicini, 2013), and natural disasters Cavallo et al.”