Statistical Games and Human Affairs - This View From Within

Klappentext This book puts the underlying methodology of socioeconomic statistics on a firmer footing by placing it within the ambit of inferential and predictive games. Zusammenfassung This book puts the underlying methodology of socioeconomic statistics on a firmer footing by placing it within the ambit of inferential and predictive games. It covers such problems as learning! publication! non-response! strategic response! the nature and possibility of rational expectations! time inconsistency! intrinsic nonstationarity! and the existence of probabilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The reactive sample space; 2. Response and social information; 3. Response and strategic behavior; 4. Publication and the political economy of prediction; 5. Rational expectations and socioeconomic modeling; 6. Games, beauty contests, and equilibrium: the foundations of structural invariance; 7. Disequilibrium and noncooperative expectational games; 8. The view from within; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Roger J. Bowden, Bowden Roger J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123419
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12341-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Econometrics, Econometrics and economic statistics