Department of Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Maximum Likelihood Inference in Weakly Identified DSGE Models 

      Andrews, Isaiah; Mikusheva, Anna (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-03-21)
      This paper examines the problem of weak identification in maximum likelihood, motivated by problems with estimation and inference a multi-dimensional, non-linear DSGE model. We suggest a test for a simple hypothesis ...

    • Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health 

      Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Moretti, Enrico (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-02-23)
      We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989 and 2003 ...

    • A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Golosov, Michael; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Yared, Pierre (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-12-31)
      We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment ...