Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations

ISBN: 9781107673472 出版年：2014 页码：298 Boland Cambridge University Press

1. Microeconomic vs macroeconomic in theoretical model building 2. On the limitations of equilibrium models in general 3. On building theoretical models using game theory 4. On the purpose and limitations of game-theoretic models 5. Microeconomic vs macroeconomic in empirical model building 6. On building macroeconometric models 7. Modeling and forecasting 8. On the role and limitations of experimental and behavioral economics 9. The logical adequacy of convincing tests of models using empirical data 10. The statistical adequacy of convincing tests of models using empirical data 11. Model building from a philosophy of science perspective 12. Choosing model-building methods.