ceteris paribus

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Notes

ceteris paribus: Latin for "all other things being equal"; used in economics to isolate the effect of a single variable by holding all other factors constant.

See also

• ceteris paribusLatin for "all other things being equal"; used in economics to isolate the effect of a single variable by holding all other factors constant.
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• Publish this as a wiki TERM (not a queued paper). Use this copy, do not rewritePublish this as a wiki TERM (not a queued paper).
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• SVAR (Structural Vector Autoregression) is an econometric tool that tries to sepSVAR (Structural Vector Autoregression) is an econometric tool that tries to separate tangled economic data into the underlying independent surprises — called shocks — that drove it, so you can simulate what happens if one of those surprises hits again.