Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based on the EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key importance of institutions for development. Other authors...

Non-Parametric Econometrics Ibrahim Ahamada Emmanuel Flachaire Translated by Andrew Clark OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents List of Figures xii List of Tables x iv 1. Kernel...