Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 2, Applied Economics
Tenth World Congress
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2013
978-1-107-71086-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the second of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and commentaries presented at invited symposium sessions of the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Shanghai in August 2010. The papers summarize and interpret key developments in economics and econometrics, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. Written by the leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline. The first volume primarily addresses economic theory, with specific focuses on nonstandard markets, contracts, decision theory, communication and organizations, epistemics and calibration, and patents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 Tables, unspecified; 60 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
5,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-107-71086-3 (9781107710863)
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Daron Acemoglu | Manuel Arellano | Eddie Dekel
Advances in Economics and Econometrics
Tenth World Congress
Book
05/2013
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. He is the author of numerous works including Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, with James Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Introduction to Modern Economic Growth (2009). He is the current editor of Econometrica. Manuel Arellano is a Professor of Econometrics at CEMFI, Madrid. His many published articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Econometrics and The Economic Journal. He is the author of Panel Data Econometrics (2003) and currently serves as second vice-president of the Econometric Society. Eddie Dekel is the William R. Kenan, Jr Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Grace and Daniel Ross Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past editor of Econometrica, and a current associate editor of Theoretical Economics and the Journal of Economic Literature.
Content
Part I. Finance: 1. Macroeconomics with financial frictions: a survey Markus K. Brunnermeier, Thomas M. Eisenbach and Yuliy Sannikov; Part II. Political Economy: 2. Institutional comparative statics James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik; 3. The political economy of mass media Andrea Prat and David Stroemberg; 4. Comments on Prat and Stroemberg, and Robinson and Torvik Marco Battaglini; 5. Job search, labor force participation, and wage rigidities Robert Shimer; 6. From wages to welfare: decomposing gains and losses from rising inequality Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L. Violante; Part III. Trade and Firm Dynamics: 7. Trade liberalization and firm dynamics Ariel Burstein and Marc J. Melitz; 8. International trade: linking micro and macro Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Sebastian Sotelo; Part IV. Growth: 9. Structural development accounting Gino Gancia, Andreas Mueller and Fabrizio Zilibotti; 10. Misallocation, economic growth, and input-output economics Charles I. Jones; Part V. Frisch Lecture: 11. Trade and labor market outcomes Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding; Part VI. Perspectives on Chinese Economic Growth: 12. The China miracle demystified Justin Y. Lin; 13. Is precocious export sophistication a source of China's growth success? Computing the share of domestic value added in exports when processing trade is prevalent Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei; 14. Perspectives on China's economic growth patent rights Yingyi Qian.
