Synthetic Control and Inference
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چکیده
We examine properties of permutation tests in the context of synthetic control. Permutation tests are frequently used method of inference for synthetic control when the number of potential control units is small. We show that the size of permutation tests may be distorted. Several alternative methods are discussed.
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