This volume provides a general overview of the econometrics of panel data, both from a theoretical and from an applied viewpoint. Since the pioneering papers by Kuh (1959), Mundlak (1961), Hoch (1962), and Balestra and Nerlove (1966), the pooling of cross-section and time-series data has become...

I: Export Earnings -- 1. Market Solutions to the Problem of Stabilizing Commodity Earnings -- 2. Hedging Commodity Export Earnings with Futures and Options Contracts -- 3. Options to Alleviate the Costs of Uncertainty and Stability: A Case Study of Zambia -- II: Financial Markets and Commodity...

I: Optimal Monetary Policy and Reaction Function of the Monetary Authorities -- 1. Optimal Monetary Policy and the Revealed Preference Function of the Swiss National Bank -- 2. Optimal Monetary Policies in a Small Open Economy -- II: Credibility and Reputation -- 3. Credibility, Reputation and...

Introduction: the health system in the general economy -- Health expenditure growth and macroeconomic models -- one: supply and demand -- The MIMIC health status index -- Estimating demand for medical care: health as a critical factor for adults and children -- An empirical model of the demand...

I: Frontiers in Forecasting and Econometric Modelling -- 1. Combinations of High and Low Frequency Data in Macroeconometric Models -- 2. Stochastic Simulation, Prediction and Validation of Nonlinear Models -- 3. An Integrated Exhaustible Resource Model of Copper Market Dynamics -- II: Trade,...

1. Introduction -- I Sectoral Models -- 2. Structure of Models -- 3. Applications -- II Economy-Wide Models -- 4. General Equilibrium -- 5. Growth -- III Conclusions -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendices -- Latin American Models -- References.