Table of Contents:
  • Problems and issues in evaluating econometric models
  • The use of exploratory methods in economic analysis : analyzing residential energy demand
  • Model construction and evaluation when theoretical knowledge is scarce
  • Data analysis by partial least squares
  • Prediction analysis of economic models
  • Some comments on the evaluation of informal models
  • Aggregation and disaggregation of nonlinear equations
  • Regression sensitivity analysis and bounded-influence estimation
  • On specification in simultaneous equation models
  • Robust analysis of the random model and weighted least squares regression
  • Some comments on papers by Dent and Geweke, Welsch, and Kelejian
  • Some comments on the papers by Welsch and Hill.
  • Comparison of econometric models by optimal control techniques
  • Bayesian decision theory and the simplification of models
  • Some comments on "comparison of econometric models by optimal control techniques" by Gregory C. Chow
  • The role of time series analysis in econometric model evaluation
  • Hypothesis testing in spectral regression : the Lagrange multiplier test as a regression diagnostic
  • Multicollinearity and the estimation of low-order moments in stable lag distributions
  • Some comments on the role of time-series analysis in econometrics
  • Relevance of laboratory experiments to testing resource allocation theory
  • Token economy and animal models for the experimental analysis of economic behavior
  • Some comments on the papers by Kagel and Battalio and by Smith / John G. Cross
  • Some comments on the papers by Kagel and Battalio and by Smith / Frank P. Stafford.