Handbook of Econometrics

A comprehensive survey of the field of econometrics by some of its leading practitioners

James J. Heckman (Edited by), Edward Leamer (Edited by)

9780444506313, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 13 December 2007

1012 pages
24 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm, 1.964 kg

As conceived by the founders of the Econometric Society, econometrics is a field that uses economic theory and statistical methods to address empirical problems in economics. It is a tool for empirical discovery and policy analysis. The chapters in this volume embody this vision and either implement it directly or provide the tools for doing so. This vision is not shared by those who view econometrics as a branch of statistics rather than as a distinct field of knowledge that designs methods of inference from data based on models of human choice behavior and social interactions. All of the essays in this volume and its companion volume 6B offer guidance to the practitioner on how to apply the methods they discuss to interpret economic data. The authors of the chapters are all leading scholars in the fields they survey and extend.

Nonparametric Approaches to Auctions (Susan Athey and Philip Haile)
Intertemporal Substitution and Risk Aversion (Lars Hansen , John Heaton, Nikolai Roussanov and Junghoon Lee)
A Practitioner's Approach to Estimating Intertemporal Relationships Using Longitudinal Data: Lessons from Applications in Wage Dynamics (Thomas MaCurdy)
Econometric Tools for Analyzing Market Outcomes (Daniel Ackerberg, Lanier Benkard, Steven Berry and Ariel Pakes)
Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization (Peter Reiss and Frank Wolak)
Microeconometric Models of Investment and Employment (Stephen Bond and John Van Reenen)
The Measurement of Productivity for Nations (Erwin Diewert and Alice Nakamura)
Linking the Theory with the Data: That's the Core Problem of International Economics (Edward Leamer)
Models of Aggregate Economic Relationships that Account for Heterogeneity (Richard Blundell and Thomas Stoker)
Estimation and Specification in Labor Supply and Consumption Models (Richard Blundell, Thomas MaCurdy, and Costas Meghir)

Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT], Economic statistics [KCHS], Econometrics [KCH], Economics [KC], Psychological methodology [JMB], Social research & statistics [JHBC]