The dynamics of annual price rates of 459 manufacturing sectors of the American economy from 1959 to 1996 are studied in the paper. There is a small but stable negative correlation between the sector price rates and the growth ones. At the same time there exists a substantial positive...

We perform Bayesian analysis of the sequence of unknown means mi given observations Xi under the assumption that, for any k 0, the first k members X1, X2, …, Xk are normally distributed with the mean (m1,…, mk ) and a known covariance matrix. It is assumed that the parameters m1,…, mk,…...

We continue presenting recent achievements in econometrics not yet widely known to a Russian reader. The generalized method of moments (GMM) was introduced to econometrical research by L. Hansen in his seminal paper in 1982. The GMM is a result of unifying two main approaches to estimating model...