We develop a procedure for removing four major specification errors from the usual formulation of binary choice models. The model that results from this procedure is different from the conventional probit and logit models. This difference arises as a direct consequence of our relaxation of the...

This paper contributes to the literature on the estimation of causal effects by providing an analytical formula for individual specific treatment effects and an empirical methodology that allows us to estimate these effects. We derive the formula from a general model with minimal restrictions,...

The method of instrumental variables (IV) and the generalized method of moments (GMM), and their applications to the estimation of errors-in-variables and simultaneous equations models in econometrics, require data on a sufficient number of instrumental variables that are both exogenous and...

Using the net effect of all relevant regressors omitted from a model to form its error term is incorrect because the coefficients and error term of such a model are non-unique. Non-unique coefficients cannot possess consistent estimators. Uniqueness can be achieved if; instead; one uses certain...

The paper estimates inflation persistence in Greece from 1975 to 2003, a period of high variation in inflation and changes in policy regimes. Two empirical methodologies, univariate autoregressive (AR) modelling and second-generation random coefficient (RC) modelling, are employed to estimate...

The aim of this paper is to study the main macroeconomic, financial and structural factors that shaped current account developments in Greece over the period from 1960 to 2007 and discuss these developments in relation to the issue of external sustainability. Concerns over Greece’s external...

Die Wirksamkeit der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Hickschen Analyse: Eine Vertiefung Die Schnelligkeit, mit der die Makropolitik Einfluß auf die Konjunktur ausübt, ist eine Schlüsselbetrachtung in gegenwärtigen politischen Diskussionen. Bliner und Solow argumentieren: "Die Hauptstreitpunkte der...

Die Wirksamkeit der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Hicksschen Analyse: Eine Erwiderung Es ist bereits gezeigt worden, daß - in einem System positiv geneigter IS-Kurven - je geringer die Zinsempfindlichkeit der Geldnachfrage ist, desto größer die Geschwindigkeit der Anpassung an exogene...

Inflationsfinanzierung und Geldnachfrage in Griechenland In diesem Aufsatz werden die Auswirkungen adaptiver und rationaler Preiserwartungen auf die Geldnachfrage in Griechenland geschätzt. Im Gegensatz zu den Ergebnissen früherer Untersuchungen, in denen adaptive Preiserwartungen der...