Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 1: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress

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Cambridge University Press, Aug 14, 2006 - Business & Economics - 464 pages
This is the first of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in London in August 2005. The papers summarise and interpret key developments, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics in economics and econometrics. The papers cover both theory and applications. Written by leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique survey of progress in the discipline.
 

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Contents

Section 1
16
Section 2
24
Section 3
57
Section 4
102
Section 5
110
Section 6
119
Section 7
136
Section 8
143
Section 15
232
Section 16
234
Section 17
236
Section 18
238
Section 19
239
Section 20
241
Section 21
243
Section 22
269

Section 9
156
Section 10
172
Section 11
178
Section 12
186
Section 13
222
Section 14
231
Section 23
298
Section 24
316
Section 25
326
Section 26
341
Section 27
381
Section 28
422

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About the author (2006)

Torsten Persson is Professor and Director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University and Centennial Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and served as President of the European Economic Association in 2003.

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