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![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything under Econometrics in The Books Store](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z1scnqz1L.jpg) |
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $12.99
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Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Steven D. Levitt::Stephen J. Dubner
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Publisher: William Morrow
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Edition: Revised & Expand, Roughcut
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Publication Date: 2006-10-02
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $31.66
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Kennedy
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.015195
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Publication Date: 2008-02-25
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: This is the perfect (and essential) supplement for all econometrics classes--from a rigorous first undergraduate course, to a first master's, to a PhD course.
- Explains what is going on in textbooks full of proofs and formulas
- Offers intuition, skepticism, insights, humor, and practical advice (dos and don’ts)
- Contains new chapters that cover instrumental variables and computational considerations
- Includes additional information on GMM, nonparametrics, and an introduction to wavelets
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.42
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Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey::Steve Ziliak
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.015195
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Publication Date: 2008-02-19
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: “McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.” —Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics “With humor, insight, piercing logic and a nod to history, Ziliak and McCloskey show how economists—and other scientists—suffer from a mass delusion about statistical analysis. The quest for statistical significance that pervades science today is a deeply flawed substitute for thoughtful analysis. . . . Yet few participants in the scientific bureaucracy have been willing to admit what Ziliak and McCloskey make clear: the emperor has no clothes.” —Kenneth Rothman, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Health The Cult of Statistical Significance shows, field by field, how “statistical significance,” a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ “testing” that doesn’t test and “estimating” that doesn’t estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide the disaster is, and how bad for science, and it traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots. Stephen T. Ziliak is the author or editor of many articles and two books. He currently lives in Chicago, where he is Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University. Deirdre N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of twenty books and three hundred scholarly articles. She has held Guggenheim and National Humanities Fellowships. She is best known for How to Be Human* Though an Economist (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and her most recent book, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006). |
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Price: $3.98
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Sale: $38.99
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Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Halberstam
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Publisher: William Morrow & Co
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Publication Date: 1986-09
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Reading Level: 752
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Description: Award-winning author David Halberstam's The Reckoning gives a riveting account of the most decisive economic confrontation of this century--between Detroit's Ford Motor Company and Japan's Nissan. Here are young Ford, renegade Iacocca, visionary Katayama--everyone needed to reveal the crucial nuances behind two nations competing for commercial supremacy. HC: Morrow.
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Price: $82.00
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Sale: $49.97
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.015195
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
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Reading Level: 776
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Description: This graduate text provides an intuitive but rigorous treatment of contemporary methods used in microeconometric research. The book makes clear that applied microeconometrics is about the estimation of marginal and treatment effects, and that parametric estimation is simply a means to this end. It also clarifies the distinction between causality and statistical association. The book focuses specifically on cross section and panel data methods. Population assumptions are stated separately from sampling assumptions, leading to simple statements as well as to important insights. The unified approach to linear and nonlinear models and to cross section and panel data enables straightforward coverage of more advanced methods. The numerous end-of-chapter problems are an important component of the book. Some problems contain important points not fully described in the text, and others cover new ideas that can be analyzed using tools presented in the current and previous chapters. Several problems require the use of the data sets included with the book.
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Price: $86.00
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Sale: $60.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: A. Colin Cameron::Pravin K. Trivedi
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.5015195
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Publication Date: 2005-05-09
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Reading Level: 1056
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Description: This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using regression methods for cross section and panel data. The book is oriented to the practitioner. A basic understanding of the linear regression model with matrix algebra is assumed. The text can be used for a microeconometrics course, typically a second-year economics PhD course; for data-oriented applied microeconometrics field courses; and as a reference work for graduate students and applied researchers who wish to fill in gaps in their toolkit. Distinguishing features of the book include emphasis on nonlinear models and robust inference, simulation-based estimation, and problems of complex survey data. The book makes frequent use of numerical examples based on generated data to illustrate the key models and methods. More substantially, it systematically integrates into the text empirical illustrations based on seven large and exceptionally rich data sets.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $42.00
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Gibbons
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.015193
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Publication Date: 1992-07-13
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal arguments about abstract games play a minor role. The applications illustrate the process of model building--of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal game-theoretic problem to be analyzed. Also, the variety of applications shows that similar issues arise in different areas of economics, and that the same game-theoretic tools can be applied in each setting. In order to emphasize the broad potential scope of the theory, conventional applications from industrial organization have been largely replaced by applications from labor, macro, and other applied fields in economics. The book covers four classes of games, and four corresponding notions of equilibrium: static games of complete information and Nash equilibrium, dynamic games of complete information and subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium, static games of incomplete information and Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and dynamic games of incomplete information and perfect Bayesian equilibrium.
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Price: $105.00
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Sale: $69.90
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Douglas Hamilton
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 519.55
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Publication Date: 1994-01-11
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Reading Level: 820
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Description: The last decade has brought dramatic changes in the way that researchers analyze economic and financial time series. This book synthesizes these recent advances and makes them accessible to first-year graduate students. James Hamilton provides the first adequate text-book treatments of important innovations such as vector autoregressions, generalized method of moments, the economic and statistical consequences of unit roots, time-varying variances, and nonlinear time series models. In addition, he presents basic tools for analyzing dynamic systems (including linear representations, autocovariance generating functions, spectral analysis, and the Kalman filter) in a way that integrates economic theory with the practical difficulties of analyzing and interpreting real-world data. Time Series Analysis fills an important need for a textbook that integrates economic theory, econometrics, and new results. The book is intended to provide students and researchers with a self-contained survey of time series analysis. It starts from first principles and should be readily accessible to any beginning graduate student, while it is also intended to serve as a reference book for researchers.
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Price: $171.95
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Sale: $101.00
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Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeffrey Wooldridge
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Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.015195
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Publication Date: 2008-03-27
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Reading Level: 865
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Description: INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS: A MODERN APPROACH, 4e illustrates how empirical researchers think about and apply econometric methods in real-world practice. The text's unique approach reflects the fact that undergraduate econometrics has moved beyond just a set of abstract tools to being genuinely useful for answering questions in business, policy evaluation, and forecasting environments. The systematic approach, which reduces clutter by introducing assumptions only as they are needed, makes absorbing the material easier and leads to better econometric practices. Its unique organization separates topics by the kinds of data being analyzed, leading to an appreciation for the important issues that arise in drawing conclusions from the different kinds of data economists use. Packed with relevant applications, INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS offers a wealth of interesting data sets that can be used to reproduce the examples in the text or as the starting point for original research projects.
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Price: $127.50
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Sale: $57.97
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ruey S. Tsay
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Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332.0151955
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Publication Date: 2005-08-30
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: Gain the statistical tools and techniques you need to understand today's financial markets with the Second Edition of this critically acclaimed book. Youll find a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their applications in modeling and predicting financial time series data. This edition continues to emphasize empirical financial data and focuses on real-world examples. Youll master key aspects of financial time series, including volatility modeling, neural network applications, market microstructure and high-frequency financial data, continuous-time models and Ito's Lemma, Value at Risk, multiple returns analysis, financial factor models, and econometric modeling via computation-intensive methods. This is an ideal textbook for MBA students and a key reference for researchers and professionals in business and finance. Order your copy today.
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