interest associated with the structural parameters do correspond to true unknown values. This enables us to produce a theory of … Hausman type tests on the required assumptions for the consistency of the SII estimators. We illustrate our theory with …

probability theory as a source of measures and procedures to be used in statistical inference. Haavelmo and the econometricians … from probability theory, but the arguments they offered in defense of this approach were not always responsive to the … from probability theory were an almost essential part of empirical research in economics. I close the paper with some …