Machine Learning and Causality : The Impact of Financial Crises on Growth /

Machine learning tools are well known for their success in prediction. But prediction is not causation, and causal discovery is at the core of most questions concerning economic policy. Recently, however, the literature has focused more on issues of causality. This paper gently introduces some leadi...

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Autore principale: Tiffin, Andrew
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/228
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Accesso online:Full text available on IMF