Re: st: Comparing economic situation before and after a specific event

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Wed, 16/2/11, ajjee wrote:
> I have a panel dataset for near 130 countries over the
> period 1980-2000. I want to compare the economic
> situation in each country before and after a
> specific event.  That specific event took place in
> each country more thanonce.  Please guide me if I
> should compare the coefficients of economic
> variables before and after the event, for example,
> testing  equality of coefficients for  the  3 years
> moving average of GDP growth before and after the event,
> or there is some other technique to deal with this type
> of problem.

This is not a technical problem but a substantive one. It
appears that you have not decided yet how you are going to
operationalize "economic situation". There is only one
person who can make that decision, and that is you.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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