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NFTs: The latest get-rich-quick scheme for the cryptosphere
17 Mar, 2021 08:37 PM
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By: Jemima Kelly We are in the midst of a new mania. A species of digital asset as unsexy-sounding as the non-fungible token or the only marginally sexier NFT is taking over the front pages, social media and, sadly for me, my life.
Over the past two weeks, I have been added to a WhatsApp group named crypto NFTs ; been invited to two chats about the tokens on Clubhouse; and had three friends call and ask me to try to explain this strange new phenomenon. On top of this are the dozens of NFT-flavoured press releases thwarting my increasingly vain attempts to reach inbox zero.
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· A couple of follow-ups to Scott Cunningham’s Mixtape book. First, Thomas Caputo has created python code for the book (to complement the Stata and R code already available). Second, Scott has started a substack he is calling the Remix, which will have deep dives into more methods papers – starting with a discussion of the Callaway and Sant’anna difference-in-differences with multiple time periods paper.
· If you want a nice illustration of when staggered DiD causes issues and discussion of different solutions, video of this talk by Andrew Baker and the associated commentary by Pedro Sant’anna is well worth a watch (as is the point made by the other discussant Edmund Schuster of the importance of theory in helping understand when differential dynamic effects may arise). See also Andrew’s paper and code.
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