Bücher der Reihe Contributions to Economic Analysis

Microsimulation Modelling involves the application of simulation methods to micro data for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness and improving the design of public policy. The field has been applied to many different policies within both government and academia. This handbook describes and discusses the main issues within the field.

This volume includes some of the papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Panel Data, Texas, June 2004, and other solicited papers that passed the refereeing process and includes such topics as dynamic panel data estimation, non-linear panel data methods and the phenomenal growth in non-stationary panel data econometrics.

These studies are based on information on time use in nine countries. It deals with the "when?" and "with whom?" questions describing human behavior, "what is done?" questions of the quantities and determinants of economic activities as well as children's issues and issues involved in the creation of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS).

The result of the first European Conference on Cognitive Economics, this book gives an overview of recent achievements of cognitive economics and aims to better define its motivations and its boundaries. The articles illustrate the different tools and methods which are currently used in the domain and enlarge those traditionally used in economics.

This book contains state-of-the-art cumulative research and results on functional structure, approximation and estimation for: individual economic agents; aggregation over those agents; and equilibrium solution stochastic processes. Contributions to time series modeling and inference in the time domain and the frequency domain are also covered.

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. It contains international comparisons between EU and OECD countries, in particular with regard to productivity performance.

The economics of art markets is an area open to econometricians, theorists, economic and art historians, labour economists, and students interested in the economic analysis of legal problems. This volume covers a number of issues including auction anomalies, the management of museums, the excess supply of labour in the performing arts, and more.

Contemporary issues in general economics, growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs, especially the issue of the sustainability of growth, are investigated in this book. A wide range of optimal economic growth models are developed here to address the crucial issues of different branches in economics.