Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications: Seventh World Congress

by David M. Kreps, Kenneth F. Wallis

Overview

These books comprise papers examining the latest developments in economic theory, applied economics and econometrics presented at the Seventh World Congress of the Econometric Society in Tokyo in August 1995. The topics were carefully selected to represent the most active fields in the discipline over the past five years. Written by the leading authorities in their fields, each paper provides a unique survey of the current state of knowledge in economics. Designed to make the material accessible to a general audience of economists, these volumes should be helpul to anyone with a good undergraduate training in economics who wishes to follow new ideas and tendencies in the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521589819
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/20/1997
Series:	Econometric Society Monographs , #28
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

1. Trade and wages Paul Krugman; 2. Politics and trade policy Elhanan Helpman; 3. Economic analysis of political institutions: an introduction Roger Myerson; 4. Game theoretic models of market structure John Sutton; 5. Rationality and knowledge in game theory Eddie Dekel and Faruk Gul; 6. Experiments and the economics of individual decision making under risk and uncertainty John D. Hey; 7. Theory and experiment in the analysis of strategic interaction Vincent Crawford; 8. Evolutionary game theory in economics Michihiro Kandori; 9. Learning from learning in economics Ramon Marimon.