This paper avails of the multinational-level Amadeus dataset to study the dynamics of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era: 1990-2004. Our unit of investigations are multinationals that every period decide whether to expand or not, by capturing at least one of the arisen opportunities. By using a dynamic panel probit approach with unobserved heterogeneity we s...

We would like to congratulate Jianqing Fan for an excellent and well-written survey of some of the literature in this area. We will here focus on some of the issues which are at the research frontiers in financial econometrics but are not covered in the survey. Most importantly, we consider the estimation of actual volatility. Related to this is the realization that financial data is actually o...

This Fourth Edition updates the "Solutions Manual for Econometrics" to match Sixth of Econometrics textbook.

Recent developments in empirical likelihood (EL) methods are reviewed. First, to put the method in perspective, two interpretations of empirical likelihood are presented, one as a nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation method (NPMLE) and the other as a generalized minimum contrast estimator (GMC). The latter interpretation provides a clear connection between EL, GMM, GEL and other related ...

Recent advances in the implementation of spatial econometrics model estimation techniques have made it desirable to compare results, which should correspond between implementations across software applications for the same data. These model estimation techniques are associated with methods for estimating impacts (emanating effects), which are also presented and compared. This review constitutes...