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Quantitative Economic History

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INTERWAR CENTRAL BANKS’ QUEST FOR PROFITABILITY: THE CASE OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHILE, 1925-1933

NEP-HPE Working Papers Flores Zendejas, Juan, Nodari, Gianandrea · 2026

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Uses newly consulted Central Bank of Chile board minutes, 1925-1933, to show profit-seeking motives, not just ideology or credibility, shaped adherence to the interwar gold exchange standard.

Causal Inference & Applied Microeconometrics

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Optimal Experimental Design and Estimation when Potential Outcomes are Bounded

NEP-ECM Papers Peter Hull · 2026-08

Derives minimax-optimal designs and estimators for bounded (e.g. binary) potential outcomes, replacing balanced randomization and difference-in-means with an unconventional recentered regression.

Does p-Hacking Mitigate or Exacerbate the Effects of Publication Bias?

arXiv econ.EM Yong Cai, Agathe Pernoud, Boli Xu · 2026-09-04

Shows fast p-hacking always worsens publication-bias distortion in reported estimates while slow p-hacking can mitigate it under strong selection, and proposes a correction for the true effect distribution.

Identification and Estimation of Intergenerational Income Mobility Measures

arXiv econ.EM Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas · 2026-09-04

Develops a missing-data identification framework with Neyman-orthogonal moments to purge life-cycle bias from intergenerational income mobility estimates built on single-age income snapshots.

Bias-robust causal inference for panel data

NEP-ECM Papers Angelos Alexopoulos · 2026-08

Adapts bias-aware minimax methods from factor-model panels to panel causal inference, correcting imputed counterfactuals for treatment effect estimates with valid uncertainty intervals.

Scalable likelihood-based inference for limited dependent variable models

NEP-ECM Papers David T. Frazier, Ruben Loaiza-Maya, Didier Nibbering · 2026-08

Proposes a stochastic-gradient likelihood estimator (SEGA) for limited dependent variable models that avoids the high-dimensional latent-variable integration intractable likelihoods usually require.

Stationary Errors and Quantile Regression in Short Panels

NEP-ECM Papers Shakeeb Khan, Elie Tamer · 2026-08

Shows stationarity in short panels forces a common quantile-regression slope rather than genuinely quantile-varying effects, and develops a fixed-T estimator consistent with that restriction.

Estimation and Inference for Peer Effects under Conditional Random Assignment

NEP-ECM Papers Ying Zeng · 2026-08

Builds a GMM framework for peer effects under conditional random assignment to urns that separately identifies endogenous and contextual effects and corrects finite-urn variance bias.

Sharp Minimax Theory for Randomized Experiments

NEP-ECM Papers Timothy Sudijono, Edgar Dobriban, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen · 2026-08

Derives a sharp second-order minimax risk expansion for treatment-effect estimation in randomized experiments, showing Bernoulli randomization with a nonlinear estimator attains the bound.

Learning about Treatment Effects in Panels under Unknown Interference

NEP-ECM Papers Shengbin Wei · 2026-08

Characterizes what panel treatment effects can still be learned when comparison units may themselves be exposed to spillovers of unknown form, without a prespecified exposure mapping.

Robust Instrumental Variables: Sharp Rates and Inference under Adversarial Contamination

NEP-ECM Papers Anders Bredahl Kock, David Preinerstorfer · 2026-07

Introduces a winsorized-mean drop-in robustification of 2SLS (W-2SLS) that attains minimax-sharp rates under adversarial contamination of instruments or outcomes.

Local Asymptotics for Treatment Choice with Partial Identification

NEP-ECM Papers Jos\'e Luis Montiel Olea, Chen Qiu, J\"{o}rg Stoye · 2026-08

Develops asymptotically optimal treatment-assignment rules for settings where sampling uncertainty is compounded by partial identification of the target parameter.

Local conformal prediction for individual causal effects

NEP-ECM Papers Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohm\'e · 2026-08

Proposes conformal prediction intervals for individual (not just conditional-mean) causal effects, localizing calibration via causal-forest-weighted similarity to a query unit.

Compositional Synthetic Controls

NEP-ECM Papers Onil Boussim · 2026-07

Extends synthetic control to compositional (vector-of-shares) outcomes by mapping to log-odds and recovering the Fréchet barycenter under the Aitchison simplex geometry.

To what extent can long-differencing capture adaptation?

NEP-ECM 2026 Annual Meeting Ghanem, Dalia, Pretis, Felix, Schuurman, Daniel · 2026

Shows standard long-difference and panel fixed-effects estimators used to measure climate adaptation are biased and can disagree in sign on the direction of adaptation, undermining a widely used empirical strategy.

Vector Search As Nearest Neighbor Matching: RAG-based Policy Learning in Causal Inference

NEP-ECM Papers Masahiro Kato, Taka Kato · 2026-07

Formalizes RAG-based policy learning as nearest-neighbor matching under the potential-outcomes framework and decomposes regret into retrieval and estimation components.

Institutional & Political Economy

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Seeking scientific consensus: An expert survey on the replication debate between Acemoglu et al. (2001) and Albouy (2012)

NEP-HPE ifso working paper series Buchner, Martin, Rose, Julian, Johannesson, Magnus, Malan, Mandy, Ankel-Peters, Jörg · 2026

Surveys 352 experts and finds no consensus, more than a decade on, on whether Albouy's (2012) critique overturns Acemoglu-Johnson-Robinson's (2001) settler-mortality instrument for institutions.

Sports Economics

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