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Title: Introduction to Econometrics by James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson ISBN: 0-201-71595-3 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 16 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $119.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BEST
Comment: This is a great textbook for undergraduate econometrics (some graduate students would also benefit from some chapters, like the one on Instrumental Variables, or Program Evaluation, or the chapters on Time Series & Forecasting). No wonder Mark Watson is one of the authors, since he is one of the best teachers I ever had. The book is clear, and it skips a lot of useless, obsolete stuff that most undergraduates have typically to go over just because everyone else has gone over it before. No time wasted with homoskedasticity, "fixed" regressors, Durbin-Watson. Everything is based on large-sample theory, the regressors are never assumed to be "nonstochastic", and homoskedasticity is treated as an exception (which is what happens in practice), not as a rule. There are nice, long empirical applications in each chapter, and some examples are dealt with in more chapters, so that you can see how new concepts are applied to the same problem, and how our understanding of the problem changes and improves with more refined tools. For more advanced students, mathematical appendixes (and a few chapters at the end) also provide reasonably accessible but relatively complex proofs. A great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very helpful and well written textbook
Comment: I've only used one other econometrics textbook and this the superior of the two. I felt that the text was excellently written, and gave the instructor and the student the option of treating the subjects as technical or less technical and more conceptual. The appendix in the end of the chapters are very helpful and clearly written. The examples and the outline of the material are clear and concise. This textbook seems very flexible. I recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Like the curate's egg: good in parts
Comment: An uneven book. Some of the explanations are clear and the long applications can be quite interesting and useful. However, several times the authors do not give an explanation that would be intuitively easier to understand. It would also have been helpful to provide some simpler, even if artificial, examples in addition to the longer applications.
These can no doubt be fixed in a second edition. At present, the revised edition of Wooldridge or even the older Jack Johnston is more intuitively appealing, while Greene is more complete.
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Title: Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions by Walter Nicholson ISBN: 0030335930 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Pub. Date: 26 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $117.95 |
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Title: Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Sixth Edition by Hal R. Varian ISBN: 0393978303 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $122.15 |
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Title: International Economics: Theory and Policy (6th Edition) by Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld ISBN: 0201770377 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 26 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $119.00 |
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Title: Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge ISBN: 0324113641 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Pub. Date: 11 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $113.95 |
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Title: Economic Development: The History of an Idea by H. W. Arndt ISBN: 0226027228 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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