We develop a monthly output index of the U.S. Transportation sector over 1980:1-2002:4 covering air, rail, water, truck, transit and pipeline activities. Separate indexes for freight and passenger are also constructed. Our total transportation output index matches very well with the annual...

Addressing the role that the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation, this title presents an index of the different indicators for this sector to identify its state, and predict its future, using various statistical procedures.

This important collection brings together leading econometricians to discuss recent advances in the areas of the econometrics of panel data, limited dependent variable models and limited dependent variable models with panel data. The collection is in honour of G. S. Maddala whose contributions...