BooST: Boosting Smooth Trees for Partial Effect Estimation in Nonlinear Regressions
Yuri Fonseca (Universidade de Columbia), Marcelo Medeiros (PUC-Rio), Gabriel Vasconcelos (PUC-Rio) e Alvaro De Lima Veiga Filho (PUC-Rio)
SBE Award 2018
10 papers awarded across 5 thematic areas.
Finalists by area1st place 2nd place 1st place 2nd place 1st place 2nd place 1st place 2nd place 1st place 2nd place
Econometrics
Component shares in continuous time
Gustavo Dias (Aarhus University), Marcelo Fernandes (FGV EESP) e Cristina Scherrer (Aarhus University)
Finance
The Cross-Section of Retail Investors: Tax-Inattention, Performance and Behavioral Biases
Justin Birru (Ohio State University), Fernando Chague (FGV EESP), Rodrigo Bueno (FEA-USP) e Bruno Giovannetti (FGV EESP)
Volatility Discovery
Gustavo Dias (Aarhus University), Cristina Scherrer (Aarhus University) e Fotis Papailias (King's College London)
Applied Macroeconomics
On the implications of strategic uncertainty for expectation formation in macroeconomics
Marcel B Ribeiro (FGV EESP)
International Reserves Management in a Model of Partial Sovereign Default
Ricardo Sabbadini (Banco Central do Brasil e FEA-USP)
Applied Microeconomics
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition
Eric Avis(University of California, Berkeley), Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio), Frederico Finan (University of California, Berkeley) e Carlos Varjao (Stanford University)
Can Better Peers Signal Less Success? The Disruptive Effect of Perceived Rank on Career Investment
Rafael P. Ribas (University of Amsterdam), Breno Sampaio (UFPE) e Giuseppe Trevisan (UFPE)
Economic Theory
Robust project selection in cost-based procurement
Rodrigo B. Andrade (FGV EPGE) e Humberto Moreira (FGV EPGE)
Water Wind and Fire: Competitive Equilibrium in Electricity Markets with Renewables
Rodrigo Moita (Insper) e Daniel Monte (FGV EESP)