Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 2
Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress

This volume contains 14 essays on seminal topics in economic analysis by internationally renowned scholars.

This is the second of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in London in August 2005. The papers summarize and interpret key developments, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics in economics and econometrics. The papers cover both theory and applications. Written by leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique survey of progress in the discipline.

1. Empirical models of auctions
2. Identification in models of oligopoly entry
3. Empirical models of imperfect competition: a discussion
4. Recent developments in the economics of price discrimination
5. Bounded rationality in industrial organization
6. Price discrimination and irrational consumers: discussion of Armstrong and Ellison
7. Behavioral economics
8. Incentives and self-control
9. Discussion of behavioral economics
10. Dynamic models for policy evaluation
11. Microeconometric search-matching models and matched employer-employee data
12. Discussion of 'dynamic models for policy evaluation' and 'microeconometric search-matching models and matched employer-employee data
13. Field experiments in development economics
14. Institutions and development: a view from below.