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Can econometric analysis make (agricultural) economics a hard science? Critical remarks and implications for economic methodology
Petrick, Martin - 2004
) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322736
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Econometric causality
Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality and model the preferences and choices of agents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274247
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The regional dimension of knowledge transfers: a behavioral approach
Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - 2006
Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266701
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru
Escobal, Javier; Torero, Máximo - 2003
In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279131
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Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and Empirical Work
Colander, David C. - 2008
only limited success in the US as a tool for doing empirical macroeconomics, where what might be called a ?theory comes … such research methods. The US ?theory comes first? approach fits much better with the journal publication metric. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295269
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A software framework for data based analysis
Krätzig, Markus - 2005
This paper presents the software framework JStatCom which is geared towards the development of rich GUI clients for numerical procedures. The concept is to solve all recurring tasks with the help of reusable Java components. Optionally, one can delegate the execution of special numerical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263603
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Value chain analysis methodologies in the context of environment and trade research
Faße, Anja; Grote, Ulrike; Winter, Etti - 2009
computable equilibrium models, econometrics, and global commodity chain analysis. Accounting of flows includes different physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270035
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Voluntary turnover: What we measure and what it (really) means
Will, Matthias Georg - 2017
In this paper, we run regression analyses to explain voluntary turnover intentions with data from more than 5,000 employees and with about 250 explanatory variables. The findings of our multi-factor approach highlight the fact that previous empirical research might have over-estimated the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733913
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Representation in econometrics: A historical perspective
Gilbert, Christopher L.; Qin, Duo - 2007
Measurement forms the substance of econometrics. This chapter outlines the history of econometrics from a measurement … perspective - how have measurement errors been dealt with and how, from a methodological standpoint, did econometrics evolve so as … to represent theory more adequately in relation to data? The evolution is organized in terms of four phases: 'theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289028
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Modelling the folk theorem of spatial economics: a heterogeneous regional growth model
Klarl, Torben - 2009
During the last year, the research field of spatial economic has rapidly increased. There is consensus that the economic performance of a region depends not only on its own potential, but also on the development of their neighbouring regions. Knowledge spillovers, which are non constant over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294691