Simulation Based Inference for Dynamic Multinomial Choice Models

A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 466-493

  Geweke, John ^a   Houser, Daniel ^b   Keane, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470996249.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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