) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …

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. …

computable equilibrium models, econometrics, and global commodity chain analysis. Accounting of flows includes different physical …

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 …

systems and control theory, it is shown how to reduce the dimension of the state and the policy vector so that the reduced …

semiparametric statistics for applied econometrics. The goal is twofold: to illustrate that the use of these methods have their … or concentrate on models that are typically motivated from economic or econometric theory. …