Publisher's Synopsis
New Approaches to Modeling, Specification Selection and Economic Inference brings together presentations of some of the fresh and innovative methodological research being done in econometrics. The contents of this volume comprise the proceedings of the first conference in the series which began as The Austin Symposia in Econometrics and is now known as The International Symposia in Economic Theory and Economics. It was held at the IC2 Institute (Innovation, Creativity and Capital) at the University of Texas at Austin on May 10-11, 1984. The symposia in fist conference was also sponsored by the Economics Department and the Center for Statistical Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
