TOPICS IN ADVANCED ECONOMETRICS: ESTIMATION, TESTING, AND SPECIFICATION OF CROSS-SECTION AND TIME SERIES MODELS

Abstract

This book, Topics in Advanced Econometrics, is written primarily as a textbook for an advanced graduate econometrics course. The topics covered include consistent model specification testing, unit roots and cointegration, and nonparametric regression estimation; they are mainly the topics in which Professor Bierens has made significant contributions to the literature over the last 15 years. This book is unusual as a textbook in the sense that it treats both cross-sectional and time series (i.e., both subscript i and t) issues in econometrics at an advanced level. Most of the results given, other than those available in standard econometrics or statistics textbooks, are drawn from the published work of the author. The book is very useful because it puts together a number of important current issues that have been treated separately in the literature and presents them systematically using a well-organized set of statistical tools. Another advantage of this book is that the materials given are almost self-contained, making this book suitable for self-tuition. This book thus ideally suits students who need tools for independent research especially in the area of nonlinear and nonparametric models and time series analysis. It will also be useful to more advanced researchers who are interested in a thorough understanding of some of the author's original and influential work in these areas.