Table of Contents

Economic statistics and social welfare comparisons - a review; measurement of inequality; poor areas; the demand for health services in a developing country - the role of prices, service quality and reporting of illnesses; on mobility; aggregation and econometric analysis of demand and supply; spatial dependence in linear regression models with an introduction to spatial econometrics; panel data methods; econometric analysis in complex surveys; information recovery in simultaneous equations' statistical models; diagnostic testing in econometrics - variable addition, RESET and Fourier approximations; applications of the bootstrap in econometrics and economic statistics; detection of unusual observations in regression and multivariate data; union-intersection and sample-split methods in econometrics with applications to MA and SURE models; modelling economic relationships with smooth transition regressions; modelling seasonality in economic time series; nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics of panel data; on calibration.