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Scaling behavior measured in cross-sectional studies through the tail index of a power law is prone to a bias. This hampers inference; in particular, time variation in estimated tail indices may be erroneous. In the case of a linear factor model, the factor biases the tail indices in the left and...
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Often, economic policies are directed toward outcomes that are measured as counts. Examples of economic variables that use a basic counting scale are number of children as an indicator of fertility, number of doctor visits as an indicator of health care demand, and number of days absent from...
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themaximum likelihood estimator (MLE) using Monte Carlo experiments on artificialcross-sections of wealth and income. We propose …
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Econometrics has traditionally revolved around point identi cation. Much effort has been devoted to finding the weakest … early 1990s, gaining momentum over time and developing into a widely researched area of econometrics. Partial identification … set as the parameters' sharp identifi cation region. Econometrics with partial identi fication is concerned with: (1 …
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