The entropy concept was developed and used by Shannon in 1940 as a measure of uncertainty in the context of information theory. In 1957 Jaynes made use of Shannon's entropy concept as a basis for estimation and inference in problems that are ill-suited for traditional statistical procedures....

The estimation of the effects of treatments endogenous variables representing everything from individual participation in a training program to national participation in a World Bank loan program has occupied much of the theoretical and applied econometric research literatures in recent years....

Fast solution of the Gaussian copula model / Bjorn Flesaker -- Perturbed Gaussian copula / Jean-Pierre Fouque, Xianwen Zhou -- The determinants of default correlations / Kanak Patel, Ricardo Pereira -- An empirical study of pricing and hedging collateralized debt obligation (CDO) / Lijuan Cao,...

Advances in Econometrics is a research annual whose editorial policy is to publish original research articles that contain enough details so that economists and econometricians who are not experts in the topics will find them accessible and useful in their research. Volume 37 exemplifies this...