Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics II

Download or read book Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics II written by Aart de Zeeuw and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1993-07-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of lectures recently given to researchers and students in quantitative economics by an international group of distinguished scholars. The topics covered are at the forefront of recent developments of research in economics and econometrics. The book is divided into three sections: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics. The section on Microeconomics contains chapters on the economics of destitution and an overview of general equilibrium theory with incomplete markets. The section on Macroeconomics contains chapters on the new endogenous growth theory and the microeconomic underpinning of dynamic international macroeconomic models. The section on Econometrics contains chapters on the rapidly expanding literature for GARCH models of volatility, empirical analysis of time series and asymptotic estimation theory for nonlinear econometric models. This will be essential reading for graduate students and researchers in economics, econometrics and finance.