Badi H. Baltagi

‘Econometric Analysis of Panel Data’ has become established as the leading textbook for postgraduate courses in panel data. This book is intended as a companion to the main text. The prerequisites include a good background in mathematical statistics and econometrics. The companion guide will add value to the existing textbooks on panel data by solving exercises in a logical and pedagogical manner, helping the reader understand, learn and teach panel data. These exercises are based upon those in Baltagi (2008) and are complementary to that text even though they are stand alone material and the reader can learn the basic material as they go through these exercises. The exercises in this book start by providing some background material on partitioned regressions and the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem, showing the reader some applications of this material that are useful in practice. Then it goes through the basic material on fixed and random effects models in a one-way and two-way error components models, following the same outline as in Baltagi (2008). The book also provides some empirical illustrations and examples using Stata and EViews that the reader can replicate. The data sets are available on the Wiley web site (www.wileyeurope.com/college/baltagi).

A Companion to Econometric Analysis of Panel Data

The present book is a collection of panel data papers, both theoretical and applied. Theoretical topics include methodology papers on panel data probit models, treatment models, error component models with an ARMA process on the time specific effects, asymptotic tests for poolability and their bootstrapped versions, confidence intervals for a doubly heteroskedastic stochastic production frontiers, estimation of semiparametric dynamic panel data models and review of survey attrition and nonresponse in the European Community Household Panel. Applications include the impact of uncertainty on UK investment, a Tobin-q investment model using US firm data, technical change in the Japanese chemical industry, cost efficiency of Spanish banks, the problem of immigrant integration in Canada, an analysis of the dynamics of individual health in the UK, the relationship between inflation and growth among OECD and APEC countries, modeling corner solutions in the industrial energy demand in the pulp and paper sector in France, technical efficiency of cereal farms in England, employment-supported training in Canada, earnings trends across skill groups and industries in West Germany, employment effects of education for disabled workers in Norway, a three-way gravity model with bilateral interaction effects for APEC countries and a panel cointegration approach to the Feldstein-Horioka investment-saving puzzle.

Die Erfassung der langfristigen Absatzmöglichkeiten mit Hilfe des Lebenszyklus eines Produktes

Giuseppe Arbia

Spatial Econometrics is a rapidly evolving field born from the joint efforts of economists, statisticians, econometricians and regional scientists. The book provides the reader with a broad view of the topic by including both methodological and application papers. Indeed the application papers relate to a number of diverse scientific fields ranging from hedonic models of house pricing to demography, from health care to regional economics, from the analysis of R&D spillovers to the study of retail market spatial characteristics. Particular emphasis is given to regional economic applications of spatial econometrics methods with a number of contributions specifically focused on the spatial concentration of economic activities and agglomeration, regional paths of economic growth, regional convergence of income and productivity and the evolution of regional employment. Most of the papers appearing in this book were solicited from the International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics held in Rome (Italy) in 2006.

Methods and Applications

Spatial Econometrics

R. Carter Hill

Hal White

Whitney Newey

Aims to annually publish original scholarly econometrics papers on designated topics with the intention of expanding the use of developed and emerging econometric techniques by disseminating ideas on the theory and practice of econometrics throughout the empirical economic, business and social science literature.

Essays in Honor of Jerry Hausman

Carter R. Hill

Whitney K. Newey

"This volume of Advances in Econometrics contains articles that examine key topics in the modeling and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Because DSGE models combine micro- and macroeconomic theory with formal econometric modeling and inference, over the past decade they have become an established framework for analyzing a variety of issues in empirical macroeconomics. The research articles make contributions in several key areas in DSGE modeling and estimation. In particular, papers cover the modeling and role of expectations, the study of optimal monetary policy in two-country models, and the problem of non-invertibility. Other interesting areas of inquiry include the analysis of parameter identification in new open economy macroeconomic models and the modeling of trend inflation shocks. The second part of the volume is devoted to articles that offer innovations in econometric methodology. These papers advance new techniques for addressing major inferential problems and include discussion and applications of Laplace-type, frequency domain, empirical likelihood and method of moments estimators."--Publisher's website.

This book is intended for a first year graduate course in econometrics. However, the first six chapters have no matrix algebra and can be used in an advanced undergraduate class. This can be supplemented by some of the material in later chapters that do not require matrix algebra, like the first part of Chapter 11 on simultaneous equations and Chapter 14 on time-series analysis. This book teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. Estimation, hypotheses testing and prediction are three recurrent themes in this book. Some uses of econometric methods include (i) empirical testing of economic t- ory, whether it is the permanent income consumption theory or purchasing power parity, (ii) forecasting, whether it is GNP or unemployment in the U.S. economy or future sales in the c- puter industry. (iii) Estimation of price elasticities of demand, or returns to scale in production. More importantly, econometric methods can be used to simulate the effect of policy changes like a tax increase on gasoline consumption, or a ban on advertising on cigarette consumption.

Econometrics

This volume is dedicated to two recent intensive areas of research in the econometrics of panel data, namely nonstationary panels and dynamic panels. It includes a comprehensive survey of the nonstationary panel literature including panel unit root tests, spurious panel regressions and panel cointegration tests. In addition, it provides recent developments in the estimation of dynamic panel data models using generalized method of moments. The volume includes eleven chapters written by twenty authors. These chapters (i) investigate better methods of estimating dynamic panels; (ii) develop methods for estimating and testing hypotheses for cointegrating vectors in dynamic panels; (iii) extend the concept of serial correlation common features analysis to nonstationary panel data models; (iv) study the local power of panel unit root test statistics; (v) derive the asymptotic distributions of various estimators for the panel cointegrated regression model; (vi) propose a unit root test in the presence of structural change; (vii) develop a new limit theory for panel data that may be cross-sectionally heterogeneous; (viii) propose stationarity tests for a heterogeneous panel data model; (ix) derive instrumental variable estimators for a semiparametric partially linear dynamic panel data model; and (x) conduct Monte Carlo experiments to study the small sample properties of a growth convergence equation. This collection of papers should prove useful for practitioners and researchers working with panel data.

Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels

Francesco Moscone

This volume covers a wide range of existing and emerging topics in applied health economics, including behavioural economics, medical care risk, social insurance, discrete choice models, cost-effectiveness analysis, health and immigration, and more.

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