Front cover; Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Contents of Volume 3; Part 1: Introduction; Overview; Part 2: Human Resources and Technology Mastery; Chapter...

Verlagsinfo: Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 7A, examines recent advances in foundational issues and "hot" topics within econometrics, such as inference for moment inequalities and estimation of high dimensional models. With its world-class editors and contributors, it succeeds in unifying...

Handbook of Computational Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Modeling, Volume Four, focuses on heterogeneous agent models, emphasizing recent advances in macroeconomics (including DSGE), finance, empirical validation and experiments, networks and related applications. Capturing the advances made...

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?,...

2 Methods for Identifying Shocks and Estimating Impulse Responses3 Monetary Policy Shocks; 4 Fiscal Shocks; 5 Technology Shocks; 6 Additional Shocks; 7 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 3: Macroeconomic Regimes and Regime Shifts; Abstract; 1 Introduction: Economic Recessions as...

Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy. The first section presents a broad set of basic empirical facts regarding the pattern and evolution of commercial policy, with the second section investigating the crosscutting legal issues...

v. 1. Post schooling wage growth : investment, search and learning / Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss -- Long-term trends in schooling : the rise and decline of public education in the United States / Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Historical perspectives on racial differences in...

Annotation, Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy...