that parametric estimation is simply a means to this end. It also clarifies the distinction between causality and …

's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal …–2009, he writes, should prompt a wide set of challenges to economic and political assumptions and to economic theory. Turner … argues that the faults of theory and policy that led to the crisis were integral elements within a broader set of simplistic …

completely rewritten. There is new material on a number of topics, including unit roots, ARCH, and cointegration. The Econometric … which recent advances in time series analysis have affected the development of a theory of dynamic econometrics, sets out an …

No names are more closely associated with modern trade theory than Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin. The basic Heckscher … component of modern trade theory. In this book, Robert Baldwin traces the development of the HO model, describing the historical …

This book presents a comprehensive behavioral theory of market interactions and proposes an approach to policy …

statistics and information theory needed to understand MDL. Part II treats universal coding, the information-theoretic notion on … which MDL is built, and part III gives a formal treatment of MDL theory as a theory of inductive inference based on … universal coding. Part IV provides a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of exponential families with an emphasis …