Essays on empirical likelihood in economics

Authors	Z. Gao
Supervisors	H.P. Boswijk
Cosupervisors	K.J. van Garderen
Award date	29-05-2012
ISBN	9789036103015
Number of pages	110
Publisher	Amsterdam: Thela Thesis
Organisations	Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract	This thesis intends to exploit the roots of empirical likelihood and its related methods in mathematical programming and computation. The roots will be connected and the connections will induce new solutions for the problems of estimation, computation, and generalization of empirical likelihood.
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Tinbergen Institute research series no. 533 Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language	English
Downloads	Thesis Cover Title pages Contents Acknowledgements 1: Introduction 2: An empirical likelihood based local estimation 3: Robust decisions in dynamic choice models 4: Geometric interpretations for constrained GMC and GEL Some mathematical foundations Bibliography
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