Machine generated contents note: 1 Classical Statistical Procedures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Score Vector, the Information Matrix, and the Cramer-Rao -- Lower Bound -- 1.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Test Procedures -- 1.4 Nuisance Parameters -- 1.5 Differentiation and Asymptotics --...

In Bayesian analysis of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, prior distributions for some of the taste-and-technology parameters can be obtained from microeconometric or presample evidence, but it is difficult to elicit priors for the parameters that govern the law of motion of...

It is well known that the rock-paper-scissors game has no pure saddle point. We show that this holds more generally: A symmetric two-player zero-sum game has a pure saddle point if and only if it is not a generalized rock-paper-scissors game. Moreover, we show that every finite symmetric...