Policy evaluation in uncertain economic environments

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Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments It will be remembered that the seventy translators of the Septuagint were shut up in seventy separate rooms with the Hebrew text and brought out with them, when they emerged, seventy identical translations.

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[William A Brock; Policy evaluation in uncertain economic environments book N Durlauf; Kenneth D West; National Bureau of Economic Research.] -- "This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy analysis. We argue that policy evaluation should be conducted on the basis of two factors: the policymaker's preferences, and the Download Citation | On Jan 1,WA Brock and others published Policy evaluation in uncertain economic environments | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments.

Academic journal article Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments. By Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; West, Kenneth D. Read preview. Article excerpt. It will be remembered that the seventy translators of the Septuagint were shut /policy-evaluation-in-uncertain-economic-environments.

Downloadable. This paper develops a general framework for economic policy evaluation. Using ideas from statistical decision theory, it argues that conventional approaches fail to appropriately integrate econometric analysis into evaluation problems.

Further, it is argued that evaluation of alternative policies should explicitly account for uncertainty about the appropriate model of the :// Enter the password to open this PDF file: Cancel OK. File name:   Models unsupported either by the policy advisers on a priori grounds or by the data are given little weight in the posterior density.

The authors embed this statistical analysis in a decision-theoretic framework for policy evaluation as a means of arriving at optimal policy rules in uncertain economic ://+evaluation. Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments William A.

Brock, Steven N. Durlauf, Kenneth D. West. NBER Working Paper No. Issued in October NBER Program(s):Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Monetary Economics This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy   Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments William A. Brock, Steven N.

Durlauf, Kenneth D. West1 5/7/03 forthcoming, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 1 The number of separate variables which in any particular social phenomenon will determine the result of   In addition, this approach recognizes that even if one agrees on the underlying economic theory that describes a phenomenon, policy evaluation often requires taking a stance on details of the economic environment such as lag lengths and functional form that are not specified by the   Web view.

Get this from a library. Policy evaluation in uncertain economic environments. [William A Brock; Steven N Durlauf; Kenneth D West; National Bureau of Economic Research.] William A. Brock & Steven N. Durlauf & Kenneth D. West, "Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol.

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While model averaging is a powerful tool in addressing model uncertainty, one can imagine contexts in which a policymaker will want more information than simply a summary statistic of the effects of a policy on outcomes where model dependence has Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments.

By William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf and Kenneth D. West. Abstract. This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy analysis. We argue that policy evaluation should be conducted on the basis of two factors: the policymaker’s preferences, and the conditional distribution of Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments.

By William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf and Kenneth D. West. Abstract. It will be remembered that the seventy translators of the Septuagint were shut up in seventy separate rooms with the Hebrew text and brought out with them, when they emerged, seventy identical translations.

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