Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics : : Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics / / Bernt P. Stigum.

As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished gro...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • PART I. Facts and Fiction in Econometrics
  • Chapter 2. The Construction of Social Reality
  • Chapter 3. The Social Construction of Reality
  • Chapter 4. Facts and Fiction in Econometrics
  • PART II. Theorizing in Economics
  • Chapter 5. Theories and Models
  • Chapter 6. The Purport of an Economic Theory
  • Chapter 7. Rationality in Economics
  • Chapter 8. Topological Artifacts and Life in Large Economies
  • PART III .Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics
  • Chapter 9. Rational Animals and Sample Populations
  • Chapter 10. The Theory Universe
  • Chapter 11. The Data Universe
  • Chapter 12. The Bridge Principles
  • PART IV. Data Analyses
  • Chapter 13. Frequentist Analogues of Priors and Posteriors
  • Chapter 14. On the COLS and CGMM Moment Estimation Methods for Frontier Production Models
  • Chapter 15. Congruence and Encompassing
  • Chapter 16. New Developments in Automatic General-to-Specific Modeling
  • PART V. Empirical Relevance
  • Chapter 17. Conjectures, Theories, and Their Empirical Relevance
  • Chapter 18. Probability versus Capacity in Choice under Uncertainty
  • Chapter 19. Evaluation of Theories and Models
  • PART VI. Diagnostics and Scientific Explanation
  • Chapter 20. Diagnoses and Defaults in Artificial Intelligence and Economics
  • Chapter 21. Explanations of an Empirical Puzzle: What Can Be Learned from a Test of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis?
  • Chapter 22. Scientific Explanation in Economics
  • Chapter 23. Scientific Explanation in Econometrics: A Case Study
  • PART VII. Contemporary Econometric Analyses
  • Chapter 24. Handling the Measurement Error Problem by Means of Panel Data: Moment Methods Applied on Firm Data
  • Chapter 25. On Bayesian Structural Inference in a Simultaneous Equation Model
  • Chapter 26. An Econometric Analysis of Residential Electric Appliance Holdings and Consumption
  • Chapter 27. Econometric Methods for Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
  • Index
  • ERRATA