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This guide provides advanced methodological principles for conducting theoretically grounded heterogeneity analysis in financial research. It emphasizes that any dimension used for splitting the data (e.g., ownership, bank type, financial constraint) must be predicted by the underlying economic mechanism, rather than being an arbitrary data exploration. It details best practices, statistical rigor (group coefficient difference testing), and common pitfalls to avoid.

This guide provides a structured methodology for designing a comprehensive robustness suite for high-stakes academic papers, particularly in monetary economics and banking. Instead of running arbitrary checks, it maps diagnostic tests directly to named econometric threats (e.g., shock contamination, specification dependence, inference understatement, regime shifts), ensuring the credibility and rigor of empirical findings.

A comprehensive guide for researchers developing models in decision theory under risk and uncertainty. It outlines how to strengthen theoretical representations by ensuring the model is anchored by clear axiomatic foundations, a mathematically tractable functional form, and crucially, verifiable behavioral content (i.e., what the model predicts or forbids). This helps bridge the gap between abstract theory and empirical data.

This comprehensive suite provides systematic checks to ensure spatial estimates are robust against methodological choices. It addresses core econometric issues such as Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP), boundary arbitrariness, spatial sorting, and spillover effects. Use this guide when submitting research to high-impact journals (like JUE) to demonstrate the reliability and stability of spatial relationships.