Review

"...explains how an empirical economist approaches the task of constructing a model and how economic models and forecasts can be evaluated." Journal of Economic Literature

"Granger wants to tell the world something about model assessment, a topic that he believes has not gotten the attention it deserves. In doing so, he gives us a short book that is easy to read and accessible to undergraduate students. Many graduate students whould also benefit from reading the book, especially the first two chapters which give a clear account of many problems associated with econometric modeling and testing. Although we all know the message, Granger has done econometrics teachers a service by writing this book." Eastern Economic Journal

"...contains a wealth of unconventional ideas." JASA

Product Description

In these three essays, Professor Granger explains the process of constructing and evaluating an empirical model. Drawing on a wide range of cases and vignettes from economics, finance, politics and environment economics, as well as from art, literature, and the entertainment industry, Professor Granger combines rigor with intuition to provide a unique and entertaining insight into one of the most important subjects in modern economics. Chapter 1 deals with Specification. Chapter 2 considers Evaluation, and argues that insufficent evaluation is undertaken by economists, and that models should be evaluated in terms of the quality of their output. In Chapter 3, the question of how to evaluate forecasts is considered at several levels of increasing depth.

剋萊夫·格蘭傑(Clive Granger)，1934年生於英國威爾士的斯旺西，現為英國公民。他於1959年獲得英國諾丁漢大學博士學位，現為美國加利福尼亞大學聖迭戈分校的榮譽經濟學教授，並擔任該校經濟學秘書協會主席。他於1995年當選為美國藝術與科學院院士，並於2003年獲諾貝爾經濟學奬。

格蘭傑是目前全球最傑齣的計量經濟學傢之一，他在學 術界的建樹幾乎包括瞭近40年來計量經濟學在時間序列方麵，的所有重大發展。經濟時間序列時，格蘭傑和另一位學者漢塔納卡(Hatanaka)首創使用瞭譜分析方法(spectral analysis)，並與著名學者摩根斯坦(Oscar Morgenstern)一起對紐約股票市場的股票價格進行瞭相關分析。在預測研究 上，他在1959年發錶的論文《關於潮汐河流泛洪的概率估 計》被認為是現代成本一收益分析教材的範本案例。在菲綫性問題的研究上，他和焦剋斯(R．Joyeux)於1980年發錶的論文《長期記憶時間序列模型與分數差分法簡介》對長期記憶理論做齣瞭很大貢獻。所有這些都是計量經濟學界最前沿的領域。格蘭傑的發現對研究“財富與消費、匯率與物價水平，以及短期利率與長期利率之間的關係”都具有非常重要的意義。