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Main Course Repository for Computational Methods in Economics (Econ 21410, Spring 2019)
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Q5-Q6 Replication #55

Closed jbendelac closed 5 years ago

jbendelac commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm confused about the notation in the paper for Table 5, where there are both capital and lower case S's ( It's clear from the table that S2/S1 does not equal s1/s2). What is the difference between the two, and how do I calculate s1-s5? I can't tell from the paper what the difference is.

jmbejara commented 5 years ago

Hi. No problem! The lowercase is the per-firm threshold. It's below equation (4) in the class lecture and here in the paper:

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erineidschun commented 5 years ago

How do we create a table once we've calculated the values? There are many methods online and none of them compile for me.

jmbejara commented 5 years ago

@erineidschun I was thinking that you would just put them into their own pandas.DataFrame in a presentable fashion.

This doesn't exactly apply here, but just to note, DataFrame's have methods called (DataFrame.to_latex)[https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_latex.html] and DataFrame.to_html, if that's useful to you.