A computational approach to finding causal economic laws

Computational Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 105-136

  Chang, I Lok ^a   Swamy, P A V B ^b   Hallahan, Charles ^c   Tavlas, George S ^d,e  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY   (United States)

^c ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^e INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Nonlinear programming; Random coefficient models; Realities of econometric model building

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040408726     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008709704755     Document Type: Article

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