Econometrics

Awesome Stata 17 Upgrade: Trying Pystata by using PPML on USITC and WITS database

Finally I got to upgrade my stata to Stata 17! I was looking forward to using Stata in my Python environment. This post is just me trying a PPML package (Stata, not the USITC one)

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Krisna Gupta

The heterogeneous impacts of tariffs and NTM on total factor productivity of Indonesian firms

A milestone in my PhD. I present the findings of one of my thesis chapters.

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Krisna Gupta
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When Instrumental Variable (IV) is problematic

One problem with IV is weak instrument, which may worsen an OLS. A course from CBE demonstrate weak instrument issue with R

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Krisna Gupta

Thorbecke 2019: Japan's Exchange Rate and Electronics Exports

For my first paper review post, I will cover a paper by Thorbecke that is certainly interesting. The paper, which examines how Japan’s electronics export competitiveness was …

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Krisna Gupta

Amiti and Konings 2007

This is a long-overdue blog review of Amiti and Konings’ paper. This paper has been widely cited, and when it came out, the issue was really hot: how tariff reductions could help …