Methods of Economic Research Craftsmanship and Credibility in Applied Microeconomics /

• Main Author: Grant, Darren (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics,
• Subjects: Microeconomics.; Econometrics.; Economic history.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.

This textbook articulates the elements of good craftsmanship in applied microeconomic research and demonstrates its effectiveness with multiple examples from economic literature. Empirical economic research is a combination of several elements: theory, econometric modelling, institutional analysis,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Craftsmanship and Credibility in Economic Research
• Chapter 2: Systems
• Chapter 3: Scale
• Chapter 4: Vernacular Knowledge
• Chapter 5: Data
• Chapter 6: Theory and Models
• Chapter 7: Description
• Chapter 8: Econometric Modeling
• Chapter 9: Testing
• Chapter 10: The Ends of Your Means
• Chapter 11: The Narrative in Numbers
• Chapter 12: Conclusion
• Glossary
• Index.