Ernst R. Berndt, Masachusetts
Institute of Technology
ISBN 0-201-49900-2 702 pp.
Description
This econometrics text helps
the reader to apply econometric techniques to a variety of empirical problems, using
classic and contemporary data sets provided on a diskette. Each chapter begins with a
discussion of economic theory underlying an application. It then summarizes the most
important empirical findings, and involves the reader in a carefully designed set of
exercises involving replication and extension of typical empirical findings. To assist the
reader in hands-on applications, special manuals are available for purchase that implement
the exercises on the widely-used computer econometric software programs, MicroTSP and
SHAZAM.
Table of Contents
1. Computers and the
Practice of Econometrics.
2. The Capital Asset Pricing Model: An Application of Bivariate Regression Analysis.
3. Costs, Learning Curves, and Scale Economies: From Simple to Multiple Regression.
4. The Measurement of Quality Change: Constructing an Hedonic Price Index for Computers
Using Multiple Regression Methods.
5. Analyzing Determinants of Wages and Measuring Wage Discrimination: Dummy Variables
in Regression Models.
6. Explaining and Forecasting Aggregate Investment Expenditures: Distributed Lags and
Autocorrelation.
7. The Demand for Electricity: Structural and Time Series Approaches.
8. Causality and Simultaneity Between Advertising and Sales.
9. Modeling the Interrelated Demands for Factors of Production: Estimation and
Inference in Equation Systems.
10. Parameter Estimation in Structural and Reduced Form Equations of Small
Macroeconometric Models.
11. Whether and How Much Women Work for Pay: Applications of Limited Dependent Variable
Procedures.