A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade: Reply
成果类型：
Editorial Material
署名作者：
Armenter, Roc; Koren, Miklos
署名单位：
Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Philadelphia; Central European University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0002-8282
DOI：
10.1257/aer.20151233
发表日期：
2016
页码：
852-854
关键词：
摘要：
Blum, Claro, and Horstmann (2016) make two statements about the balls-and-bins model of Armenter and Koren (2014). First, that using firm-level shipment data changes some of our results. Second, that the balls-and-bins model is not an appropriate statistical method. We respond to the first statement and argue that the second statement is unfounded and unrelated to the first. Indeed, the work of Blum, Claro, and Horstmann (2016) is a perfect example of how to use balls-and-bins in a rich dataset to spot interesting data patterns.