Book DescriptionAdonis Yatchew provides simple and flexible (nonparametric) techniques for analyzing regression data He includes a series of empirical examples with the estimation of Engel curves and equivalence scales, scale economies, household gasoline consumption, housing prices, option prices and state price density estimation ожбех The book is of interest to a broad range of economists including those working in industrial organization, labor, development, and urban, energy and financial economics Download DescriptionThis book provides an accessible collection of techniques for analyzing nonparametric and semiparametric regression models Worked examples include estimation of Engel curves and equivalence scales, scale economies, semiparametric Cobb-Douglas, translog and CES cost functions, household gasoline consumption, hedonic housing prices, option prices and state price density estimation The book should be of interest to a broad range of economists including those working in industrial organization, labor, development, urban, energy and financial economics A variety of testing procedures are covered including simple goodness of fit tests and residual regression tests These procedures can be used to test hypotheses such as parametric and semiparametric specifications, significance, monotonicity and additive separability Other topics include endogeneity of parametric and nonparametric effects, as well as heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation in the residuals Bootstrap procedures are provided.  Герои романа2003 г ISBN 0521012260.