Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States -- 3 Europe's Venture Capital Institutions Are Good Enough -- 4 Promoting Entrepreneurship -- 5 Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship -- 6 Europe:...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the Sixth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Lawrence R. Klein -- Kenneth J. Arrow -- Paul A. Samuelson -- Milton Friedman -- George J. Stigler -- James Tobin -- Franco Modigliani -- James M. Buchanan -- Robert M. Solow -- William F. Sharpe -- Douglass C. North --...

This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...

This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to interventions are permitted to be heterogeneous in a general way and agents...

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...