PUBLICATION

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:  

Multivariate Stochastic Volatility (Coedited with M. McAleer), Special Issue of Econometric Reviews, Vol 25(Numbers 2-3), July 2006.

Special Issue of Econometric Reviews, In Honor of Robert L. Basmann, 2003.

Panel Data : The 9th International Panel Data Conference, Special Issue of Econometric Reviews, (Selected papers from the Geneva conference), 2003

Panel Data 1: Papers from the 8th International Panel Data Conference, Editor (with A. Heshmati),  Special Issue of Econometric Reviews, Marcel Dekker, vol 19-3 (2000).
 
Panel Data 2: Papers from the 8th International Panel Data Conference, Editor (with A. Heshmati),  Special Issues of Econometric Reviews, Marcel Dekker, vol 19-4 (2000).

Contributions to Econometrics: J.D. Sargan, Vol.I, (edited),
Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Contributions to Econometrics: J.D. Sargan, Vol.II, (edited),
Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Supply Models with Feedback Features, Vol.4 of System Dynamics in Energy Modeling, (with R.H. Day & S. Miller), Monograph EPRI EA-1357, Vol.4, Electric Power Research Institute, March 1980.

Measurement and Analysis of Welfare, (Editor) Special Annals issue of the Journal of Econometrics, Volume 50, No.½, 1991.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:

"A Modified Stein-like Estimator for the Reduced Form Coefficients of Simultaneous Equations," Econometrica, Vol 46,  pp. 695-703, May 1978.

"The Effect of the Shape of the Income Distribution on Two Inequality Measures," (with Henri Theil), Economics Letters, 4,  pp.289-291, 1979.

"Omitted Variables, Variability of Estimated Parameters and the Appearance of Autocorrelation," (with Y.P. Gupta),  Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 9, pp.379-385, 1979.

"Misspecified Polynomial Detrending," (with Y.P.Gupta), Economics Letters, 4, pp. 329-331, 1979.

"A Ridge-Like Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Simultaneous Equations," Journal of Econometrics, 12, pp.161-176,  1980.   

"On the behavior of Inconsistent Instrumental Variable Estimators" (with Peter C.B.Phillips), Journal of Econometrics, 19 (1982),  pp. 183-201.

 "On the Relevance of Finite Sample Distribution Theory? ", Econometric Reviews, (1983), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 61-69.

"The Trend and the Measurement of World Inequality Over Extended Periods of Accounting," with Jin-Ho Jeong,  Economics Letters, (1985), 19, pp. 295-301.

"Reduced Form Estimation and Prediction from Uncertain Structural Models: A Generic Approach," Journal of Econometrics, 31, (1986), pp. 3-29.
  
"A class of Generalized Measures of Mobility with Applications," (with S. Zandvakili), Economics Letters (1986), 97-102.   
  
"The Measurement and Decomposition of Multidimensional Inequality," Econometrica, 54, pp. 991-997, July 1986.

"Moments of OLS Estimators in an Autoregressive Moving Average Model with Explanatory Variables," (with A.Ullah),  Economics Letters (1986), 21, pp. 265-269.

"Unknown Regression Functions and Information Efficient Functional Forms:An Interpretation," Advances in Econometrics,  Vol.5, pp. 301-309; 1987.  

"Specification Analysis in Special Rational Distributed Lag and Other Dynamic Models," (with A. Ullah), Journal of Quantitative  Economics , (July) 1987, Vol.3, No.2, 203-11.

"Information Theory," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics,  Vol.2, New York: Stockton Press, 1988, 846-51; 
Published again in The New Palgrave Econometrics, 1990.

"Multivariate Measures of Well-Being and an Analysis of Inequality in the Michigan Data," with G. Nickelsburg, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 6, 3, 327-334, 1988.  

"A Comparison of GRF and Other Reduced Form Estimators in Simultaneous Equations Models," (with J.H.Jeong),  Journal of Econometrics, 1988, 115-34.

"Macroeconomic Implications of the Information Revolution", (with G. Von Furstenberg); American Economic Review:  papers and proceedings, Vol.78, No. 2, 1988 (May), 178-81.

"On Econometric Methodology," Economic Record, (1988), December, 64.  

"Transaction Costs and the Interest Parity Theorem: Comment," (with J.Pippenger),  Journal of Political Economy, 1989 (Feb.),  97, 1, 236-243.

"Composite Indices of Income and Other Developmental Indicators: A General Approach,Research on Economic Inequality,  1989, Vol.1, 269-286.  

"Continuously Distributed Attributes and Measures of Multivariate Inequality,Journal of Econometrics, 1989, 131-144.   

"Mobility Profiles and Time Aggregates of Individual Incomes,"(with S. Zandvakili), Research on Economic Inequality, 1989,  vol 1, 195-218.   

"Generalized Entropy Measures of Mobility for Different Sexes and Income Levels," with S. Zandvakili, Journal of Econometrics,  1990, 121-133.

"How to Live with Misspecification If You Must," Journal of Econometrics, 1990, pp.67-86.  

"Specification Analysis in Dynamic Models," with Denzil Fiebig, 
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,  October 1990, Vol. 8, No. 4., pp. 443-451.  

"Introduction," to The Measurement and Analysis of Welfare,
 Annals issue of the Journal of Econometrics,  Vol. 50, No.1, 1991.

"Cluster Analysis and the Quality of Life Across Countries,"(with J. Hirschberg and D.J. Slottje), Journal of Econometrics,  Vol. 50, No. ½(1991), pp. 131-150.

"The Many Dimensions of Welfare and Inequality," ISA Bulletin, Fall 1991. 
(Invited Keynote Address given to Iranian Scholars Association, ORSA meetings, Nashvile, May 1991).

"Rules of Thumb and Pseudo Science," Journal of Econometrics, Vol 53, No.1-3, 1992, pp.1-4.

"A Compendium to Information Theory in Economics and Econometrics," 
Econometric Reviews, Vol. 12, 2, 1993 (May).  

"Artificial Neural Networks for Some Macroeconomic Series : A First Report,"  with A. Khotanzad and A. Abaye,  Econometric Reviews, 1994, vol 13, No. 1.  

"Ordering Univariate Distributions by Entropy and Variance", (With N. Ebrahimi, and E.Soofi), Journal of Econometrics, 1999.   

"Stochastic Dominance Amongst Swedish Income Distributions", With A. Heshmati, Econometric Reviews, Vol. 19-3, 2000.  

"Reflections", Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 14, 4., 2000.

"The Environment and the Quality of Life in the United States over time",with J. Hirschberg, and D. Slottje, Environmental Modeling Sciences and Software, 2001.

"On the Relevance of First Order Asymptotic Theory to Economics", 
Journal of Econometrics, 100 (83-86), 2001.

"Comparing Income Mobility in Germany and the US using Generalized Entropy Mobility Measures", with Mark Trede,  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 83-3, 2001, 551-559.
 
"A Retrospective On J. Denis Sargan ", With Neil Ericsson and Grayham Mizon,   Econometric Reviews,  20(3), 2001.    

"Clusters of Attributes and Well-being in the US", with J.Hirschberg, and D. Slottje, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16, 445-460, 2001.

"Entropy and Predictability of Stock Market Returns", with Jeff Racine

,Journal of Econometrics, 107, 291-312, 2002.  

"Antitrust Issues in International Comparisons of Market Structure", 
With A. Arize, J. Hirschberg, and D. Slottje, Journal of Econometrics, 113, 129-158, 2003.

"Dynamics of Market Power and Concentration Profiles", with D.J., Slottje, Econometric Reviews, 2003.

"A Dependence Metric for Possibly Nonlinear Processes" with Clive C. Granger and Jeffrey C. Racine, Journal of Time Series Analysis, vol. 25, 5, 649-669, 2004.

An Axiomatic Approach to Determine Income Inequality Indices: Introducing the family of Generalized Entropy Measures”, With E. Pasha and A. Zendedel, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Management, vol. 62, 53-72 (In Farsi), Azad University, 2004.

"Robust Inference Concerning Recent Trends in US Environmental Quality" with Daniel L. Millimet, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 20, 55-77, 2005.

“A Multidimensional Analysis of Inequality in Iran”, with E. Pasha, and A. Zendedel, Journal of Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (Mathematical Series), vol. 18, No. 1, 2005.

"Consistent Testing for Stochastic Dominance under General Sampling Schemes", with Oliver Linton and Y-J. Whang, Review of Economic Studies, 72, 735-765, 2005.

Class Size and Educational Policy: Who Benefits from Smaller Classes”, Econometric Reviews, 24 (4), 2005 (Forthcoming).

"Growth and Convergence: A Profile of Distribution Dynamics and Mobility”, with Jeffrey Racine and Thanasis Stengos (2006), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

A Reexamination of the Equity Premium Puzzle: A Robust Nonparametric Approach, with G. Lim and Vance Martin, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

A Versatile and Robust Metric Entropy Test for Time-Irreversibility, and Other Hypotheses, with Jeff Racine, Journal of Econometrics (forthcoming).

"Multivariate Stochastic Volatility: An Overview”, With Michael McAleer, Econometric Reviews, 25(2-3), 139-144, 2006.

Measuring the Volatility in US Treasury Benchmarks and Debt Instruments”, with S. Hoti, M. McAleer, and D. Slottje, Econometric Reviews, forthcoming.

"A Robust Entropy-Based Test for Asymmetry", with Jeff Racine, pdf, Econometric Reviews, (forthcoming).

Economic Reform, Growth and Convergence in China”, with Le Wang, Econometric Journal, forthcoming.

"Corrigendum: Consistent Tests for Stochastic Dominance under General Sampling Schemes", with Oliver Linton and Y-J. Whang, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming, 2007.

 

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (and Proceedings):

"Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by various Household Attributes",with A. Heshmati, forthcoming in, Gianni Betti and Achille Lemmi (eds.), Advances on income inequality and concentration measures: Collected papers in memory of Corrado Gini and Max O. Lorenz; Routledge Publisher

Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by various Household Attributes(Long Version)",with A. Heshmati,Chapter 4 Advances on income inequality and concentration measures: Collected papers in memory of Corrado Gini and Max O.Lorenz; Routledge Publisher

"The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assessments"; with Maria Ana LUGO, forthcoming as the lead Chapter in, Nanak Kakwani and J. Silber (Eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional  Palgrave-MacMillan.

“Using Statistics in Patent Cases: A Case Study, with Mathew Mercurio, Chapter 13, A Primer on Economic Damages in Intellectual Property Matters, John Wiley, John Wiley 2006.

The Law of Demand and Lost Profits Analysis” with Robert Basmann, Michael Buchanan and Daniel Slottje, Chapter 7, A Primer on Economic Damages in Intellectual Property Matters ,John Wiley, John Wiley 2006.

The Information Basis of Matching with Propensity Scores, with Ozkan Eren, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association (CD-ROM), 2005.

"Entropy Based Dynamic Specification Searches", with Jeff Racine, pdf,  Proceedings of American Statistical Association, CD-ROM, 2003.

"Measuring Market Power in the  Steel Industry", with S. Prowse and D.J. Slottje,  In D.J. Slottje (ed.), Measuring Market Power, North Holland, 2002.
   
"Parametric and Nonparametric Tests of Limited Domain and Ordered Hypotheses in Economics", Chapter 25, In B. Baltagi (ed.),  Companion to Econometric Theory, Basil Blackwell Publishers, (2001).

"Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Analysis," Chapter 15, in J. Silber (ed.) Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement,  Kluwer publishers, 1999, (With Comments by F. Bourguignon), 437-484, 1999.

"Measuring Informativeness by Entropy and Variance", with N. Ebrahimi and E. Soofi, in D.J. Slottje (ed.)  Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution, and Methodology of Science  
(Essays in Honor of Camilo Dagum), Springer-Verlag, 1999.   

"Empirical Analyses of Inequality and Welfare", Chapter 5, in The Handbook of Applied Econometrics,  Vol II:  Microeconomics, M.H. Pesaran and P. Schmidt (eds.), Blackwell publishers, 202-245, 1998.  

"On Mobility", Chapter 5,in the Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, D. Giles and A.Ullah (eds), Marcel Dekker,  pp.119-176, 1998.

"The Effects of Relative Price Changes and Cost of Living Adjustments on some Welfare Indices," (with C. Diamond,  M.Nieswiadomy, and D.J. Slottje), in Models and Measurement of Welfare and  Inequality, W. Eichhorn (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1994.

"Mixing Forecasts in Linear Simultaneous Equations Under Quadratic Loss,"  in T. Van Hua and R. Bewley (eds.) Essays in Honor  of Henri Theil, McMillan Pub. Co., December 1991.

"Denis Sargan and His Seminal Contributions to Economic and Econometric Theory," Chapter 1 of Contributions to Econometrics:  J.D. Sargan, Vol. I; Cambridge University Press, 1988.   

"Denis Sargan’s Contributions to the Theory of Finite Sample Distributions and Dynamic  Econometric Models," Chapter 1 of,  Contributions to Econometrics: J.D. Sargan, Vol. II, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

"The Approximate Moments of the 3SLS Reduced Form Estimator and MELO Combinations of OLS-3SLS for Prediction," in  Time Series and Econometric Modeling,  I.B. MacNeill and G.J. Umphrey (eds.), Reidel Publishing Co., 1987, 359-371.

"Experimental and Non-Experimental Approaches to Statistical Research," Chapter 4 in Econometric Modeling in Economic  Education Research, W.E. Becker and W.B. Walstad (eds.), Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishers, 1987.

"Specification Analysis in a Dynamic Model," (with Y.P.Gupta), 
Chapter 4 of E.G.Charatsis (ed.), Proceedings of the Econometric Society Meeting 1979:  Selected Econometric Papers in Memory of Stefan Valavanis, North-Holland, 1981, pp. 89-103.
 
 

PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS:

Handbook of Econometrics, Vol.1, by Z.Griliches and M.Intriligator (eds.), 1983,North-Holland, in Mathematical Reviews, 1986.

Handbook of Econometrics, Vol.2, by Z.Griliches and M.Intriligator (eds.), 1984,North-Holland, in Mathematical Reviews,1986.

Handbook of Econometrics, Vol.3, by Z.Griliches and M.Intriligator (eds.), 1986,North-Holland, in Mathematical Reviews, 1988.

A History of Econometrics, by R.J.Epstein, 1987, North-Holland, Mathematical Reviews, 1989.

Handbook of Statistics 11 : Econometrics, G.S. Maddala,C.R. Rao,and H.D.Vinod (Eds.), North-Holland, 1993, in Mathematical Reviews, 1994.

Handbook of Econometrics, Vol.4, by R. Engle and D. McFadden (eds.), 1995,North-Holland, in Mathematical Reviews, 1995.

Statistical Foundations for Econometric Techniques, by A. Zaman, Academic Press,  in Mathematical Reviews,(1998).

Testing for random walk coefficients in regression and state space models, by Moryson, Physica-Verlag, in Mathematical Reviews, 1999.

Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models, by Hsiao, Lahiri, Lee and Pesaran, Cambridge U. Press, in Math. Reviews, 2001

PUBLISHED ARTICLE REVIEWS (a selection):

"A Fractional Dickey-Fuller Test for Unit Roots", by J. Dolado, J. Gonzalo, and L. Mayoral, Econometrica, No. 5, 2002; forthcoming in Maths Reviews, 2003.
 
 
"Further consequences of viewing LIML as an iterated Aitken estimator". By C. Gao and K. Lahiri (2000), Journal of Econometrics, 98, In Mathematical Reviews (2001).

"Sets of Posterior Means with Bounded Variance Priors," by E.E. Leamer (1982),Econometrica, in Mathematical Reviews, (1983), 83i: 62172.

"A Characterization of Granger-Sims Exogeneity," by R. Kohn (1981), Economics Letters,in Mathematical Reviews, (1983), 83h:62168.

"Exact and Approximate Distributions of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Slope Coefficient," by T.W. Anderson  and T. Sawa (182), J. Royal Stats. Society, B, 44, 52-62;in Mathematical Reviews, (1984), 84j:62023.

"Linear Estimation with an Incorrect Dispersion Matrix in Linear Models with a Common Linear Part,"  by M. Thomas (1983), J. of American Stats. Assoc., 78, 468-471; in Mathematical Reviews, (1984).

"A Heteroscedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator for Time Series Regressions," by D. Hsieh (183), J.of Econometrics, 22, 281-290; in Mathematical Reviews, (1984).

"On Unification of the Asymptotic Theory of Nonlinear Econometric Models," by J.F. Burquete, A.R. Gallant, and G. Souza,  Econometric Reviews, Vol.1, 2, (1982), 151-211, in {Math Reviews,} (1985).

"Switching Regression Models with Imperfect Sample Separation Information with an Application on Cartel Stability,"  by  L.F. Lee and R.H. Porter 1984, Econometrica, in Math. Reviews.

"The Effects of Autocorrelation Among Errors on the Consistency Property of the OLS Variance Estimator," by S.C. Sharma,1985, J. of Econometrics, in Maths. Reviews.

"Linear Instrumental Variable Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Models with Endogenous Explanatory Variables," by  W. Newey, J. of Econometrics, (1986), in Maths.Reviews, (1987).

"Bayesian Specification Analysis and Estimation of Simultaneous Equation Models using Monte Carlo Methods," by A. Zellner, L. Bauwens, and H.K. van Dijk, J. of Econometrics, (1988), in Maths. Reviews (1989).

"Characterizations of the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator in the General Gauss-Markov Model with the Use of Matrix Partial  Orderings," by J.K. Baksalary, and S. Puntanen, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, (1990), in Maths. Reviews (1991).

"Models for Combining Vector Estimators of Random Parameters,"  by P.L.Odell and D.Dorsett, Math. Comput. Modelling, 13, (1990) no. 8, 57-68, in Mathematical Reviews (1991).

"A test for functional form against nonparametric alternatives", by J.M. Wooldridge, Econometric Theory,  in Mathematical Reviews, 1993.

"Optimal Rates of Convergence of Parameter Estimators in the Binary Response Model with Weak Distributional Assumptions," by J.L. Horowitz, Econometric Theory, 9, 1993, 1-18; in Mathematical Reviews, 1993.

"Implied probabilities in GMM estimators," by K. Back, and D.P. Brown, Econometrica, 61, 1993, 971-975,  in Mathematical Reviews.

"The Second Order Bias and Mean Squared Error of Non-Linear estimators", in Mathematical Reviews, 1997.

EXAMPLES OF REPORTS AND OTHER STUDIES:

A contributor to volumes 13 and 14 (1985) and volume 13 (1990) of Economic Reading Lists ,Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles  and Problems, by E. Tower, Eno River Press.

"1979 Injury Statistics Based on a Survey of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions,"  conducted  and analyzed an independent survey of IAAPA, December 1980.

"An Analysis of the Sampling Validity, the Estimation Procedure and the Estimates of Injuries Involving Amusement Rides."   A report prepared for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, September 1980.

Unpublished mimeographed papers:

The Information Basis of Matching with Propensity Scores”, with Ozkan Eren, (submitted)

The Information Basis of Matching in Treatment Effect: Understanding Propensity Scores”, Mimeo, SMU, Economics.

A nonparametric Test for equality of Distributions with Mixed continuous and categorical data”, with Qi Li and Jeff Racine (Revise and Resubmit).

“A Distributional Analysis of Returns to Marriage”, with D. Millimet and D. Sarkar, March 2005, SMU, Economics.

"SocioEconomic Composition and Uniform Partial Ranking of US County-level Environmental Quality",  with D. Millimet (2004), Mimeo, SMU.

"Consensus ranking of US income distributions: A bootstrap application of stochastic dominance tests,"  with J. Mills and S. Zandvakili.

"Tests of Structural change and aggregation in linear models," with Asad Zaman.

"Generalized Maximum Entropy Measures of Volatility in Financial Series," With G. Zhang, SMU.

"Generalized ME Distributions and numerical algorithms," with G. Zhang, SMU.

"Solution to a problem posed by B. Baltagi" in Econometric Theory.

 "Solution to H. White’s Problem in Econometric Theory," with D. Fiebig and A. Tremayne.

"The International Distribution of Welfare Attributes: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Inequality," Indiana University, Department of Economics Paper \#84-1.