Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily during economic turning points—financial crises, pandemics, and geopolitical ...

Spatial econometrics addresses the challenges posed by spatially correlated data, enabling researchers to understand and quantify how economic phenomena in one location can influence those in ...

Economists develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “Economic Models,” p. 8). For ...

Conventional tests for composite hypotheses in minimum distance models can be unreliable when the relationship between the structural and reduced-form parameters is highly nonlinear. Such nonlinearity ...

Lawrence Klein, the University of Pennsylvania economist who won the 1980 Nobel Prize for his computer-based models that help governments forecast the future and act accordingly, died Sunday at his ...

Eureka moments are rare in all fields, not least in economics.1 One such moment came to me when I was an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. I was talking to a friend who was ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject matter expert, ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Finance and Economics and MSc in Finance and Economics (Work Placement Pathway). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other ...