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cte-mechanism

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Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript. Mechanism tests that open the "policy black box" and land on identifiable channels are near-mandatory for empirical submissions. 本技能服务于《财贸经济》(Finance & Trade Economics, CTE)。

When to use

• Designing mechanism analyses
• Writing mechanism sections
• Identifying observable channels
• Applying mediation or moderation effects
• Replacing dependent variables with mechanism variables
• Conducting cross-subsample comparisons
• Checking time consistency of mechanism variables
• Excluding competing mechanisms

When not to use

• Macro-level narrative mechanisms without observable behavior
• Using only Sobel tests for mediation
• Using future information in mechanism variable construction
• Unexplained reverse-direction mechanism results

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