New JEP Issue
May 14, 2010 3 Comments
JEP, Vol.24, No.2, Spring 2010.
Some of the topics (and titles themselves) are really attractive and seem insightful to those empirical researchers. Empirical approaches, much misused and even abused these days, indeed need these fundamental thinking. It would never be exaggerated to say that we need to make much more efforts in our research design than in running the regressions!!
I especially like these key featured papers:
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics (pp. 3-30)
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia (pp. 31-46)
Edward E. Leamer
A Structural Perspective on the Experimentalist School (pp. 47-58)
Michael P. Keane
But Economics Is Not an Experimental Science (pp. 59-68)
Christopher A. Sims
Taking the Dogma out of Econometrics: Structural Modeling and Credible Inference (pp. 69-82)
Aviv Nevo and Michael D. Whinston
The Other Transformation in Econometric Practice: Robust Tools for Inference (pp. 83-94)
James H. Stock
我看好多人都关注这一期的JEP了，讲的是reduced跟structural之争吧，对我来说太高深了呵呵
是的，这是一部分。还有关于整个empirical economics的可信度问题，如何从研究设计改进可信度的问题，等。
师兄，我也注意到这一期了，哈哈。第一篇的两个作者指出可以用随机试验的方法来改进经验研究结果，在宏观计量和产业组织等方面的计量研究值得改进，后面的人都是和第一篇pk的。哈哈