Advances in Economics and Econometrics 2 Hardback Volume Set: Theory and Applications, Eleventh World Congress (Econometric Society Monographs) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108227244 ISBN 13: 9781108227247

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

These are the two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2015. The papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics. Written by the leading specialists in their fields, these volumes include surveys and interpretations of key developments in economics and econometrics, and discussion of future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. The first volume includes theoretical and applied papers addressing topics such as dynamic mechanism design, agency problems, and networks. The second volume addresses topics such as big data, macroeconomics, financial markets, and partially identified models.

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Book Description

A collection of papers presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society. Written by experts in the field with the intention of bringing readers up to date on developments in these fields, this two volume set is a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in economics.

About the Author

Bo Honoré is Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is Director of the Gregory C. Chow Econometric Research Program at Princeton University, and was formerly a member of the Board of Trustees of the Danish National Research Foundation. Honoré is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and conducts research in econometrics.

Ariel Pakes is the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts. His research has been in industrial organisation, the economics of technological change, and in econometric theory. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and received the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society in 1986. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2007 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society.

Monika Piazzesi is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University, California, and is also the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Asset Pricing Group. She conducts research in finance and macroeconomics, and is a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Financial Econometrics.

Larry Samuelson is the A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics at Yale University, Connecticut, where he is also Director of the Cowles Foundation. His research is in economic theory, with an emphasis on game theory. He has served as a co-editor of Econometrica and the American Economic Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1108227244
• ISBN 13: 9781108227247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 900
• Editor: Honoré Bo, Pakes Ariel, Piazzesi Monika, Samuelson Larry