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Benchmarking Global Optimizers

NBER, 2019

Arnoud, Antoine, Guvenen Fatih & Kleineberg, Tatjana. (2019). "Benchmarking Global Optimizers." NBER. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26340

We benchmark seven global optimization algorithms by comparing their performance on challenging multi-dimensional test functions as well as a method of simulated moments estimation of a model of earnings dynamics.

The Evolution of U.S. Firms’ Retirement Plan Offerings: Evidence from a New Panel Data Set

NBER, 2021

Arnoud, Choukhmane, Colmenares, O'Dea, Parvathaneni. (2021). "The Evolution of U.S. Firms' Retirement Plan Offerings: Evidence from a New Panel Data Set." NBER. https://www.nber.org/programs-projects/projects-and-centers/retirement-and-disability-research-center/center-papers/nb20-14

This paper documents, using a newly-constructed data set, the evolution of the characteristics of employer-sponsored DC schemes. The dataset is built using OCR and NLP on hundreds of thousands of documents.