Die Anwendung eines Mikrosimulationsmodells als Instrument der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung erfreut sich großer Beliebtheit. Die Verwendung dieses Modelltyps hat vor allem zwei Gründe. Zum einen sind die in den letzten Jahren extrem gesunkenen Kosten der Informationsverarbeitung...

Summary Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and...

Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and Hadri...