Have instrumental variables brought us closer to truth? SFS Cavalcade Keynote Address.Jiang, W. "Have Instrumental Variables Brought us Closer to the Truth?" Review of Corporate Finance Studies 6 (2017), 127-140.Jiang, W., 2017, Have instrumental variables brought us closer to the the truth...
A survey of 255 papers that rely on the instrumental variable (IV) approach for identifying causal effects published in the "Big Three" finance journals reveals that IV estimates are larger than their corresponding uninstrumented estimates in about 80% of the studies, regardless of whether the pote...
LLMs can have hundreds of billions of ‘parameters’, the variables that the AI uses internally to make decisions. XAI has “rapidly grown in the past few years, especially since LLMs have started to emerge”, says Mor Geva, a computer scientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. These ...
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Finally, we measured the moderating variables of narcissism using the NPI-16 (Ames et al., 2006) to measure grandiose narcissism with a forced-choice scale. Respondents were asked to choose the closest expression of their personality from 16 pairs of descriptions that reflect narcissistic (coded ...
For those who have been in China 30 years ago and revisited China during the past 10 years, the changes in the level of infrastructure in China indeed have made them stunned. Yes, China’s infrastructure and urban landscape (especially in the coastal...