Spillover Effects in Empirical Corporate Finance: Choosing the Proxy for Treatment Coverage

The existing literature indicates that spillovers can lead to a complicated bias in the estimation of causal effects in empirical corporate finance. We show that, under the assumption of simple random treatment assignment and when the proxy chosen for the group-level treatment coverage is the leave-...

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Main Authors: Fabiana Gómez, David Pacini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-08-01
Series:Computation
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/10/9/149