This book has grown out of half a century of experience of teaching undergraduate econometrics at the Econometric Institute in Rotterdam. It combines a solid exposition of econometric methods with the application-oriented approach that is characteristic of the Rotterdam tradition in...

In recent years, Colombia has grown relatively rapidly, but it has been a biased growth. The energy sector (the “locomotora minero-energetica,” to use the rhetorical expression of President Juan Manuel Santos) grew much faster than the rest of the economy, while the manufacturing sector...