AppliedMultiple choice
In a panel of firms over many years, what does adding firm fixed effects to a regression achieve?
- AIt removes all omitted-variable bias, whatever its source
- BIt controls for every unobserved firm trait that does not change over time
- CIt corrects the standard errors for heteroskedasticity
- DIt makes the coefficients represent differences between firms rather than within them
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