In certain auction, search, and related models, the boundary of the support of the observed data depends on some of the parameters of interest. For such nonregular models, standard asymptotic distribution theory does not apply. Previous work has focused on characterizing the nonstandard limiting...

"This is the first of two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Montréal, Canada in August 2015. These papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics today. This book...