Structural Econometrics
Essays in Methodology and Applications
Published on 3. February 2011
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-19-806943-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume highlights the use of structural methods by applying them to a large number of widely different contexts. The essays draw on data from several countries such as Colombia, India, and the US and develop empirical models that are applied to a wide range of policy issues. Some of these issues relate to the infant computer industry in India in the 1980s, the cement industry in the US, factors underlying the ownership of blast furnaces in India in the 1990s, entry decisions of producers in export markets, and even a down-to-earth issue such as the behaviour of pedestrians attempting to cross a stream of traffic at signalized intersections.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-806943-0 (9780198069430)
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Person
Bhaskar Dutta is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Content
Preface; 1. Introduction, ANTARA DUTTA; 2. Estimation of Fuel of Coefficients of Cement Production: A Fixed-Effects Approach to Nonlinear Regression, SANGHAMITRA DAS; 3. A Semiparametric Structural Analysis of the Idleness of Cement Kilns, SANGHAMITRA DAS; 4. Micro Econometric Model of Capital Utilization and Retirement: The case of the U.S. Cement Industry, SANGHAMITRA DAS; 5. Size, Age, and Firm Growth in an Infant Industry: The Computer Hardware Industry of India, SANGHAMITRA DAS; 6. Duration of Firms in an Infant Industry: The Case of the Indian Computer Hardware, SANGHAMITRA DAS AND KRISHNA SRINIVASAN, 7. Foreign versus Domestic Technology, Private versus Public Ownership, and Product Quality: The Case of the Indian Microcomputer Industry, SANGHAMITRA DAS; 8. Projection Pursuit Regression and Disaggregate Productivity Effects: The Case of the Indian Blast Furnaces, SANGHAMITRA DAS AND RAMPRASAD SENGUPTA; 9. Walk or Wait? An Empirical Analysis of Street Crossing Decisions, SANGHAMITRA DAS, CHARLES MANSKI, AND MARK MANUSZAK; 10. The Decision to Export in Columbia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs, MARK ROBERTS AND JAMES TYBOUT; 11. Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity and Export Dynamics; SANGHAMITRA DAS, MARK ROBERT, AND JAMES TYBOUT; 12. Random Utility Models with Bounded Ambiguity; CHARLES MANSKI; 13. On Testing Conditional Moment Restrictions, MIGUEL A. DELGADO; Contributor's Note.