Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 2

Bo Honoré is Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is Director of the Gregory C. Chow Econometric Research Program at Princeton University, and was formerly a member of the Board of Trustees of the Danish National Research Foundation. Honoré is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and conducts research in econometrics. Ariel Pakes is the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts. His research has been in industrial organisation, the economics of technological change, and in econometric theory. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and received the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society in 1986. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2007 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. Monika Piazzesi is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University, California, and is also the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Asset Pricing Group. She conducts research in finance and macroeconomics, and is a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Financial Econometrics. Larry Samuelson is the A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics at Yale University, Connecticut, where he is also Director of the Cowles Foundation. His research is in economic theory, with an emphasis on game theory. He has served as a co-editor of Econometrica and the American Economic Review.

• 1. Opportunities and challenges: lessons from analyzing terabytes of scanner data Serena Ng; 2. Is big data a big deal for applied microeconomics Jesse M. Shapiro; 3. Low-frequency econometrics Ulrich K. Müller and Mark W. Watson; 4. Shocks, sign restrictions and identification Harald Uhlig; 5. On the distribution of the welfare losses of large recessions Dirk Krueger, Kurt Mitman and Fabrizio Peeri; 6. Computing equilibria in dynamic stochastic macro-models with heterogeneous agents Johannes Brumm, Felix Kubler and Simon Scheidegger; 7. Recent advances in empirical analysis of financial markets: industrial organization meets finance Jakub Kastl; 8. Practical and theoretical advances in inference for partially identified models Ivan A. Canay and Azeem M. Shaikh; 9. Partial identification in applied research: benefits and challenges Kate Ho and Adam M. Rosen.

'These volumes live up to the standard set by previous Econometric Society World Congress volumes in leading debates about research in economics and econometrics. One of the highlights of the Econometric Society World Congress is the opportunity that it gives for cutting-edge appraisals of the knowledge presented by leaders in their field. This is an important resource for anyone who wants to get up to speed on the topics covered or learn from another expert's take on these important issues.' Timothy Besley, London School of Economics and Political Science