Microeconometrics
Published on 1. June 1990
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-631-16965-9 (ISBN)
Description
Applied microeconomics has become an increasingly important focus of economic research, employing rigorous statistical techniques to test sophisticated economic theories. This volume presents a survey of recent work combining methodology with empirical studies. The first part of the book puts the applied work into perspective and examines the methods and techniques of microeconometrics. It includes work on the specification of labour supply and commodity demand models, duration data, analysis of business surveys and functional measures inequality. The second part contains empirical studies of household and firm behaviour including labour supply with constraints, unemployment duration, optimal scrapping decisions, innovation and the formation of firms' expectations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
779 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-16965-9 (9780631169659)
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Content
Part 1 Introductory surveys and methodological essays: Labour supply, commodity and the taxation of households, Francois Laisney and Gerhard Wagenhals; preference restrictions in microeconomics models of life-cycle behaviour under uncertainty; Richard Blundell, Vanessa Fry, Costas Meghir; duration models, Jean-Pierre Florens; business surveys and the behaviour of firms, Marc Ivaldi; the information contents of responses from business surveys, Gerd Ronning; what can we learn about firms' output, employment and pricing decisions from business surveys, William Low, James McIntosh, Fabio Schiantarelli; strong concentration ordering, Claude Fourgeaud, Christian Gourieroux, Jacqueline Pradel; functional averages and statistical inference, M.Dujancourt, Christian Gourieroux. Part 2 Applications: Labour supply and hours constraints, Manuel Arellano, Costas Meghir; preference interdependence and habit formation in family labour supply, Arie Kapteyn and Isolde Woittiez; simulation of VAT reforms for France using cross-section data, Rafiq Baccouche, Francosi Laisney; unemployment duration benefits - a study using UNEDIC data, Jean-Pierre Florens, Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet, Patrick Werquin; an empirical study of inventory and order appraisals from business surveys by covariance structure models, Marc Ivaldi; optimal scrapping, vehicle operating costs and the estimation of the benefits to highway improvements, Andrew Chesher; employment, innovation aand export activity - evidence from firm-level data, Horst Entorf, Winfried Pohlmeier; company expectatation and new information - an application of Kalman filtering, Colin Mayer and M.Mors.