Estimating Models of Dynamic Optimization with Microeconomic Data

Handbook of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 227-274

  Miller, Robert A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computation; Conditional choice probabilities; Continuous choice models; Discrete choice models; Dynamic structural models; ML estimation; Relaxing time additivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044938907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631216339.1999.00007.x     Document Type: Chapter

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