Advances in Economics and Econometrics

This is the second of two volumes containing papers and commentaries presented at the Eleventh World Congress of the Econometric Society held in Montreal Canada in August 2015. These papers provide state-of-the-art guides to the most important recent research in economics. The book includes surveys and interpretations of key developments in economics and econometrics and discussion of future directions for a wide variety of topics covering both theory and application. These volumes provide a unique accessible survey of progress on the discipline written by leading specialists in their fields. The second volume addresses topics such as big data macroeconomics financial markets and partially identified models.