- A wrong sign can be considered a blessing not a disaster. Getting a wrong sign is a friendly message that some detective work needs to be done
- 19 example, mostly due to foolishness
- First commandments of applied econometrics: Use common Sense
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- Suppose you believe that x affects y positively but there is a lag involved. You regress yt on xt and xt-1 and are surprised to find a negative coefficient for xt-1. The explanation is that the long-run impact of x is smaller that its short-run impact
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