Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Econometrics

Summarizing developments and techniques in the field, this reference covers sample surveys, nonparametric analysis, hypothesis testing, time series analysis, Bayesian inference, and distribution theory for applications in statistics, economics, medicine, biology, engineering, sociology, psychology, and information technology. It supplies a geometric proof of an extended Gauss-Markov theorem, approaches for the design and implementation of sample surveys, advances in the theory of Neyman's smooth test, and methods for pre-test and biased estimation. It includes discussions ofsample size...

Computational Models in the Economics of Environment and Development provides a step-by-step guide in designing, developing, and solving non-linear environment-development models. It accomplishes this by focusing on applied models, using real examples as case studies. Additionally, it gives examples of developing policy interventions based on quantitative model results. Finally, it uses a simple computer program, GAMS, to develop and solve models.

This book is targeted towards university lecturers and students in economic modeling and sustainable development, but...

• An in-depth discussion of recent work on economic growth.


• Keeps readers abreast of the central ideas in the field.


• Presents both theoretical and empirical points of view.


• Accessible to the technically competent non-specialist economist.


• Covers topics such as technical progress, human capital, international trade, convergence, unemployment, and fiscal policy.

• Analyzes the allocation of risk in the context of the current literature, as well as emphasizes the role of information in decisions and prices.
  
• Includes end-of-chapter exercises that supply the necessary tools for a comprehensive understanding of the field.

• Analyzes the allocation of risk in the context of the current literature, as well as emphasizes the role of information in decisions and prices.
  
• Includes end-of-chapter exercises that supply the necessary tools for a comprehensive understanding of the field.

• Written for introductory courses seeking a little rigor.
  
• The 4th edition brings the material fully up-to-date and includes new end-of-chapter problems and classroom projects, as well as a math appendix.
  
• Accompanied by a comprehensive website featuring solutions to problems and teaching notes.

This book deals with a number of mathematical topics that are of great importance in the study of classical econometrics. There is a lengthy chapter on matrix algebra, which takes the reader from the most elementary aspects to the partitioned inverses, characteristic roots and vectors, symmetric, and orthogonal and positive (semi) definite matrices. The book also covers pseudo-inverses, solutions to systems of linear equations, solutions of vector difference equations with constant coefficients and random forcing functions, matrix differentiation, and permutation matrices. Its novel...