Contributions to Modern Econometrics From Data Analysis to Economic Policy

The field of econometrics has gone through remarkable changes during the last decades. The earlier focus on testing macroeconomic theories has been widened considerably. It has turned into a discipline concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for any kind of economic data. Contributions to Modern Econometrics represents a collection of recent economic applications of modern econometrics and methodological developments. It converse topics such as: -Effects of data quality on monetary policy, -Empirical comparison of alternative monetary aggregates, -Empirical tests of theories for the term structure of interest rates, -Financial econometrics for heavy-tailed returns, -The transformation of the Polish economy, -Labor economics, -Econometric modeling of household and investment decisions, -modeling with limited dependent variables, -testing for units roots, -Alternative smoothing algorithms, -Latent-variable models with error in variables. Contributions to Modern Econometrics is of interest to researchers and students in economics as well as practitioners in business, industry and public institutions who want to learn about recent developments in the field of econometrics.