Quantile

international econometric journal
in Russian language

no. 5

september 2008

 

Econometric literacy: selected topics in microeconometrics

 

Rodríguez, Germán. Survival models

This essay is an introduction to survival models in the context of generalized linear models. We introduce the hazard and survival functions and describe the most common censoring mechanisms and the resulting likelihood function. We discuss the main approaches to modeling waiting times, including accelerated life and proportional hazard models, with extensions to time-varying covariates and time-dependent effects. We then focus on the piece-wise exponential survival model and note its equivalence with Poisson regression models. We illustrate this approach with an application to the analysis of infant and child mortality in Colombia using survey data. We conclude with a brief discussion of discrete time models and their equivalence with logistic regression.

McFadden, Daniel. Semiparametric analysis

This essay surveys two areas of application of semiparametric econometrics: the analysis of censored employment duration data, and the analysis of data on stated willingness-to-pay for natural resources.

 

Advice to econometrics students

 

Tsyplakov, Alexander. A mini-dictionary of English econometric terminology II

This part of the dictionary comments on English econometric terms kurtosis, skewness, critical region, significance level, confidence level, and some others. Emphasis is again placed on accurate definitions of their meaning to avoid possible confusion and incorrect interpretation.

Anatolyev, Stanislav. Review of English textbooks in time series analysis

This is a survey of most notable time series econometrics texts written in English. The essay reflects the author's opinion, as well as opinions of econometricians expressed in published book reviews.

 

Problems and solutions

 

Problems 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

 

Articles: applied econometrics

 

Nazrullaeva, Eugenia. Measurement of technological progress in Russia

Measurement of technological progress is one of core issues in the growth theory. Applied growth accounting based on the standard Solow residual approach to technology measurement assumes exogenous nature of productivity growth not explained by the dynamics of factor inputs. This exogenous unexplained residual is considered as a proxy for the technological change. The existing research in TFP measurement for Russian economy concentrates on the analysis of the transition process and considers the collapse in output as being caused by the fall in TFP, i.e. by technological “regress”. The declining TFP is sometimes explained by the fall in efficiency of production process or by the fall in capacity utilization. In this paper the TFP is estimated using Russian industry level data from the Federal State Statistics Service and Russian Economic Barometer from 1995 to 2004. TFP measurement based on observable estimates for capital and labor utilization accounting for the specifics of Russian industrial statistics reveals that the output growth after 1998 is accompanied by a slow technological improvement, and that a negative technology shock is observed before 1998.

Demidov, Oleg. Different indexes for forecasting  economic activity in Russia

This paper considers different ways of computing indexes for forecasting economic activity in Russia. The first is the methodology used by the Russian Development Centre based on the concept of “growth cycles”. The second combines the dynamic principal components and dynamic factor analyses. The third approach is the NBER methodology based of diffusion indexes constructed using a dynamic factor model. This paper is an attempt to reveal strengths and weaknesses of the three methods in application to Russian data and to develop a better methodology for forecasting economic activity in Russia.

 

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