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synthReturn: Synthetic Matching Method for Returns

Implements the revised Synthetic Matching Algorithm of Kreitmeir, Lane, and Raschky (2025) <doi:10.2139/ssrn.3751162>, building on the original approach of Acemoglu, Johnson, Kermani, Kwak, and Mitton (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.10.001>, to estimate the cumulative treatment effect of an event on treated firms’ stock returns.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: base (≥ 4.0.0), stats, utils, corpcor (≥ 1.6.10), data.table, quadprog (≥ 1.5), parallel, mirai
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-09-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.synthReturn
Author: David H Kreitmeir [aut, cre], Christian Düben [ctb]
Maintainer: David H Kreitmeir <david.kreitmeir1 at monash.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/davidkreitmeir/synthReturn/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/davidkreitmeir/synthReturn
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: synthReturn citation info
Materials: README
CRAN checks: synthReturn results

Documentation:

Reference manual: synthReturn.html , synthReturn.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: synthReturn_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
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