Preface

Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics

ISBN: 978-0-44450-861-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-842-1

ISSN: 0573-8555

Publication date: 2 July 2004

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Erwin Diewert, W. (2004), "Preface", Barnett, W.A. and Binner, J.M. (Ed.) Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 261), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xxi-xxxii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0573-8555(2004)0000261002

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Introduction to the Series
Preface
Editors' Introduction to Volume
EDITORS' OVERVIEW OF PART 1
THE DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH
The Joint Allocation of Leisure and Goods Expenditure
Definitions of Second-Order Approximation and of Flexible Functional Form
The Global Properties of the Minflex Laurent, Generalized Leontief, and Translog Flexible Functional Forms
The Minflex Laurent Translog Flexible Functional Form
The Three-Dimensional Global Properties of the Minflex Laurent, Generalized Leontief and Translog Flexible Functional Forms1
The Global Properties of the Two Minflex Laurent Flexible Functional Forms
The Miintz-Szatz Demand System—An Application of a Globally Well-Behaved Series Expansion1
Semi-parametric Estimation of the Asymptotically Ideal Model: The AIM Demand System
Semi-nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of the Asymptotically Ideal Model: The AIM Demand System
Recursive Subaggregation and a Generalized Hypocycloidal Demand Model1
A Monte Carlo Study of Tests of Blockwise Weak Separability
The Recent Reappearance of the Homotheticity Restriction on Preferences
EDITORS' OVERVIEW OF PART 2
Semi-nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of the Asymptotically Ideal Production Model1
Financial Firm Production of Monetary Services: A Generalized Symmetric Barnett Variable Profit Function Approach
Financial Firm's Production and Supply-Side Monetary Aggregation Under Dynamic Uncertainty
Tastes and Technology: Curvature Is Not Sufficient for Regularity
Pollak and Wachter on the Household Production Function Approach
EDITORS' OVERVIEW OF PART 3
Maximum Likelihood and Iterated Aitken Estimation of Nonlinear Systems of Equations
A Test of Normality in Nonlinear Systems of Consumer Demand Equations
Random Sets and Confidence Procedures
EDITORS' OVERVIEW OF PART 4
The Aggregation-Theoretic Monetary Aggregates Are Chaotic and Have Strange Attractors: An Econometric Application of Mathematical Chaos
Robustness of Nonlinearity and Chaos Tests to Measurement Error, Inference Method, and Sample Size
Time Series Cointegration Tests and Nonlinearity
Has Chaos been Discovered with Economic Data?
A Single-Blind Controlled Competition Among Tests for Nonlinearity and Chaos
REFERENCES
Author Index
Subject Index