Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Volume 2: Microeconomics: v. 2 (Blackwell Handbooks in Economics)

Product Description This volume is a major new survey of the latest developments in applied econometrics focusing on key topics in microeconometrics. Each topic is written by a leading international expert specially commissioned to address the methodological problems of undertaking empirical work in economics. The volume editors have focused on specific microeconometric applications, rather than on conventional econometric theory. The Handbook of Applied Econometrics covers the econometric issues involved in a variety of applied microeconomic problems:* the measurement of productivity* frontier production functions and the measurement of efficiency* consumer demand* income inequality and economic welfare* estimation of models of dynamic optimization* search models and duration data* quasi-likelihood methods for count data* analysis of business surveysAn authoritative overview of the applied work going on in the field, this will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, graduate students and professional economists in industry and government. From the Back Cover This volume is a major new survey of the latest developments in applied econometrics focusing on key topics in microeconometrics. Each topic is written by a leading international expert specially commissioned to address the methodological problems of undertaking empirical work in economics. The volume editors have focused on specific microeconometric applications, rather than on conventional econometric theory. The Handbook of Applied Econometrics covers the econometric issues involved in a variety of applied microeconomic problems: * the measurement of productivity * frontier production functions and the measurement of efficiency * consumer demand * income inequality and economic welfare * estimation of models of dynamic optimization * search models and duration data * quasi-likelihood methods for count data * analysis of business surveys An authoritative overview of the applied work going on in the field, this will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, graduate students and professional economists in industry and government. About the Author Hashem Pesaran is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics (since 1986), and a Fellow of both the Econometrics Society and the Journal of Econometrics. He is a member of the Academic Panel of HM Treasury, and an advisory board member of the Economic Research Forum for Aran Countries, Iran and Turkey. He has published widely in econometrics and empirical macroeconomics and in 1990 won the George Sell prize for the best article published in the Economic Journal between 1990 and 1991. Mike Wickens is currently Professor of Economics at the University of York, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the Centre of Economic Forecasting, London Business School. He has been Professor of Economics at the University of Florida and University of Southampton and London Business School. Member and former Chairman H. M. Treasury Academic panel and Houblon Norman Fellow, Bank of England. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics and Journal of Empirical Finance and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has published widely in the leading journals and his research interests include macroeconometrics, financial econometrics, international finance, and econometric theory.