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Do Carbon Price Forecasts Improve Compliance Procurement? Evidence from European Union Allowances
Muzi Chen, Difang Huang, Shouyang Wang +1
Firms covered by emissions trading systems need forecasts not only to value allowances, but also to decide when to buy them. This paper asks whether European Union Allowance (EUA)…
When and Why Naïve Diversification Works: A Simple Diagnostic Strategy
Han Feng, Difang Huang, Jue Wang +1
The paper identifies a simple condition—called the Golden Criterion—under which equal‑weight portfolios are minimum‑variance optimal, and proposes an adaptive two‑stage strategy th…
Semiparametric Single-Index Estimation for Average Treatment Effects
Difang Huang, Jiti Gao, Tatsushi Oka
We propose a semiparametric method to estimate the average treatment effect under the assumption of unconfoundedness given observational data. Our estimation method alleviates miss…
Estimating the Impact of Social Distance Policy in Mitigating COVID-19 Spread with Factor-Based Imputation Approach
Difang Huang, Ying Liang, Boyao Wu +1
We identify the effectiveness of social distancing policies in reducing the transmission of the COVID-19 spread. We build a model that measures the relative frequency and geographi…