Hans Schneeweiß is- one of the best-known German econometricians and statisticians. He was born in Glatz, Silesia, on March 13, 1933. Hans SchneeweiB studied mathematics and physics and received his Ph. D. degree from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt, in 1960. He was member of...

When making decisions, agents tend to make use of decisions others have made in similar situations. Ignoring this behavior in empirical models can be interpreted as a problem of omitted variables. We suggest a possibility of integrating such outside influences into models of discrete choice by...

This "Festschrift" is published to honour the academic career of Hans Schneeweiß, who celebrates his 65th birthday in Spring 1998. The individual chapters contain contributions by his friends and colleagues to the areas in which he himself has excelled and stimulated further research....