Tag: Stata

When US–China tensions lower oil prices

Geopolitical tensions can raise oil prices by threatening supply. They can also depress prices by weakening the outlook for trade, investment and energy demand. US–China relations provide an…

xtswitchdid and did_multiplegt_dyn: Same Same, but Different

Changing software should not change the economic question. Yet two implementations of the same difference-in-differences framework can produce different-looking estimates because their defaults refer to different causal parameters.…

Do International Reserves Buffer Real-Exchange-Rate Adjustment after Terms-of-Trade Shocks? A Matching Application in Stata

This post illustrates how to use matching methods in Stata to study a reserve-buffer mechanism in international macroeconomics. The application uses kmatch, teffects, and a country-year panel to compare high-…