Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

Xiaohong Chen, the newly appointed Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, focuses her research on econometric theory, semiparametric and nonparametric models and methods, sieve estimation and ...

Microeconomic theory often yields models with multiple nonlinear equations, nonseparable unobservables, nonlinear cross equation restrictions, and many potentially multicolinear covariates. We show ...

Economists develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables. For example, economists connect the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We extend Bergstrom's 1985 results on nonparametric (NP) estimation in Hilbert spaces to unbounded sample sets. The motivation is to seek the ...

Dr. Matthew Higgins is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Western Michigan University. He teaches a wide range of courses in economics, statistics and econometrics at the ...

Students are expected to develop a thorough understanding of micro and macro economic theory at the undergraduate level. Students should be able to apply their knowledge of economic theory and the ...

At least four of these SIX courses must be upper lever 3000+ elective courses. There is a calculus pre-requisite to be completed before taking either intermediate theory course and econometrics. The ...