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Stijn Masschelein

Academic Resources for HDR students

resources

theory

analysis

I think of all of these as simplistic but useful introductions to certain theories. The goal and philosophy is explained in this Introduction

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Quadratic and Cubic Terms in Linear Models.

econometrics

In our weekly seminar, Robert Faff presented a paper with an OLS model with the quadratic and cubic term effects. The dependent variable in this model is the change in cash…

On nuance

theory

Keeping in theme with the swearing, another paper I would like to present is “Fuck Nuance” by Kieran Healy, a sociology professor. He describes the trap of trying to explain…

Everything is fucked: Econometrics Edition

econometrics

methodology

Following Sanjay Srivastava’s (fake) syllabus on pychological research, I thought I summarise a couple of recent econometrics related papers with a similar message.