Research Staff
Toru Kitagawa
cemmap and University College London
Toru is a research staff member at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) and is also a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics. He has previously taught Microeconomectrics and Econometrics for Policy.
Selected Publications
This paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available […]
We compare two approaches to using information about the signs of structural shocks at specific dates […]
How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic […]
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We propose a new specification test for assessing the validity of fuzzy regression discontinuity designs (FRD-validity). […]
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In a landmark contribution to the structural vector autoregression (SVARs) literature, Rubio-Ramirez, Waggoner, and Zha (2010, […]
In our laboratory experiment, subjects, in sequence, have to predict the value of a good. The […]
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How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic […]
Many empirical questions concern target parameters selected through optimization. For example, researchers may be interested in […]
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This paper analyzes Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) where identification of structural parameters holds locally but not […]
In an important class of econometric problems, researchers select a target parameter by maximizing the Euclidean […]