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They’re using the release of BitTorrent as a natural experiment here, seeing what happened before and after with a combination of a few techniques (matching, DI
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
They’re using the release of BitTorrent as a natural experiment here, seeing what happened before and after with a combination of a few techniques (matching, DID, and IV). I’m not convinced that this will say anything more than “after the 90s and early 2000s, firms started doing XYZ.” The causal statement here is plausible, but the methods are unconvincing.