Cancellation & Nonrenewal Handbook

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ELEMENTARY FORECASTING focuses on the core techniques of widest applicability. The author illustrates all methods with detailed real-world applications, many of them international in flavor, designed to mimic typical forecasting situations.

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Not Bad.......2007-01-04

The book starts with talking about forecasting deterministic trends, then seasonalities, later chapters 6,7,8 talk about forecasting cycles. Finally in the end chapters the author puts it all together and talks about multivariable forecasting models. The book is on an introductory level, so if you're looking for indepth discussion of these topics this is not for you. Anoter drawback is that this book does not integrate into its discussion of the topics any examples of code that would show how to forecast with any popular software package (Eviews or SAS).

Third edition is no better.......2004-01-15

I posted the unfavorable review of the second edition. I have recently had an opportunity to see the third edition, and find the same errors are still present.

an embarrassingly slapdash and sloppy book.......2002-09-28

There were a considerable number of errors in the first edition that I pointed out to the author shortly after its publication. The second edition seems to have corrected few if any of them. Let me cite two egregious examples.

In the chapter on ARMA models, the example analyzed is Canadian Employment data. One of the models that is fit is an MA(4) -- see pages 164-6. When I tried to reproduce these results using software other than EVIEWS, using the data disk in the 1st edition, I couldn't. I contacted EVIEWS and they discovered a programming error in the estimation routine. They released a patch to fix EVIEWS. However, the author never re-estimated his model, and the estimates in the second edition are the same as in the first. However, my copy of the 2nd edition has no data disk! Was that thought to be an adequate solution?!

Chapter 9 ("Putting it all together") is a capstone chapter that analyzes liquor sales data using the techniques introduced in earlier chapters. After several pages (pp. 207-19) a model is selected. On pages 220-2, the residuals are examined using the Box-Ljung statistic, and deemed acceptable. However, as a careful examination of table 9.6 makes clear, the p-values for the Box-Ljung statistic were computed as if the input data were a raw series. The model generating the residuals (p. 219) had 3 autoregressive terms! This changes the d.f. in the chi-square distribution of the statistic. If you make the appropriate correction using the data in table 9.6, and compute the p-values correctly, you will see that the model residuals apparently ARE NOT white noise. One reason is a calendar effect in liquor sales: months that contain more than a usual number of Fridays and Saturdays result in more liquor sales; ones with more Sundays result in lower liquor sales. However, the author doesn't discover this, but accepts his inappropriate model on the basis of faulty distribution theory.

Good, but poor examples.......1999-11-27

If the purpose of using this book is to get a brief idea of what certain concepts are then it is a good book. Unfortunately, many people using this book are going to be those who do not have much background with the concepts inside and they will be looking for clearer explanations of what the author is talking about. I think that is the book's weakness: the fact that many times I didn't feel that his definitions and explanations were complete enough.

Excellent introductory guide to forecasting !!!.......1999-01-26

The use of practical examples (using the Eviews software) and the availability of a data disk makes this a very relevant guide for practitioners. There is a good section on graphical analysis and modelling of cycles using AR and MA processes. The mathematics is kept simple and clear, intuitive explanations are given throughout. The treatment of unit roots, cointegration and other advanced materials is quite sketchy but I guess that is to be expected in an introductory text. With the level of clarity evident throughout this book, I certainty hope Diebold follows up with another book on more advanced forecasting techniques.

State-Space Models with Regime Switching: Classical and Gibbs-Sampling Approaches with Applications

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State-Space Models with Regime-Switching:Classical and Gibbs
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excellent book on regime switching

State-Space Models with Regime Switching: Classical and Gibbs-Sampling Approaches with Applications
Chang-Jin Kim , and Charles R. Nelson
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Both state-space models and Markov switching models have been highly productive paths for empirical research in macroeconomics and finance. This book presents recent advances in econometric methods that make feasible the estimation of models that have both features. One approach, in the classical framework, approximates the likelihood function; the other, in the Bayesian framework, uses Gibbs-sampling to simulate posterior distributions from data.

The authors present numerous applications of these approaches in detail: decomposition of time series into trend and cycle, a new index of coincident economic indicators, approaches to modeling monetary policy uncertainty, Friedman's "plucking" model of recessions, the detection of turning points in the business cycle and the question of whether booms and recessions are duration-dependent, state-space models with heteroskedastic disturbances, fads and crashes in financial markets, long-run real exchange rates, and mean reversion in asset returns.

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Amazing treatement for the practitioner and the student.......2007-02-06

This book gives a step-by-step treatement of models with regime changes and time varying coefficients. If you are a student or a practitioner you will find this book very useful to start your applications. The first six chapters are very well developed, and the GAUSS codes provided by the authors let you realize how to do the job. These chapters will let you estimate a model using the classical approach. However, the next chapters that cover exactly the same topics using a bayesian approach are not that well developed. The examples and explanations are not clear, and the few examples do not help you generalize the techniques to your own models. The first six chapters, however, make this book worth 5 stars!

State-Space Models with Regime-Switching:Classical and Gibbs.......2003-12-31

This is basically the only book around on this subject, and they do have useful informations as well. I think explanation is concise enough to clearly understand. I found this book to be useful because of those. The only thing is some typos (which I think is inevitable for this kind of book) and program software on the web which is not very clearly written.

A waste of time........2002-01-29

This book is poorly written. It has numerous typos. The authors never even bothered to explain some of the math notations they used. Apparently, I believe some the examples were copied from other books without a clear explanation of the notations. You'll end up scratching your head on the notations and typos. I wasted a lot of time reading this book. They never mentioned some of shorting comings of using Gibbs Sampling, and ignore some of alternative methods that are far superior in many other respects.

excellent book on regime switching.......2001-03-28

This is really great book for understanding regime switching and state-space models.As far as I know this is the first book that includes both topics together.It is easy to understand and supporting applications at the end of the each chapter make things easier for the reader.Furthermore, it also tells about bayesian econometrics and gibbs-sampling approach.In short,it is a must buy book for a economics graduate student who is interested in nonlinear time series econometrics

Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics

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Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics
Christiaan Heij , Paul de Boer , Philip Hans Franses , Teun Kloek , and Herman K. van Dijk
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Nowadays applied work in business and economics requires a solid understanding of econometric methods to support decision-making. Combining a solid exposition of econometric methods with an application-oriented approach, this rigorous textbook provides students with a working understanding and hands-on experience of current econometrics. Taking a 'learning by doing' approach, it covers basic econometric methods (statistics, simple and multiple regression, nonlinear regression, maximum likelihood, and generalized method of moments), and addresses the creative process of model building with due attention to diagnostic testing and model improvement. Its last part is devoted to two major application areas: the econometrics of choice data (logit and probit, multinomial and ordered choice, truncated and censored data, and duration data) and the econometrics of time series data (univariate time series, trends, volatility, vector autoregressions, and a brief discussion of SUR models, panel data, and simultaneous equations). DT Real-world text examples and practical exercise questions stimulate active learning and show how econometrics can solve practical questions in modern business and economic management. DT Focuses on the core of econometrics, regression, and covers two major advanced topics, choice data with applications in marketing and micro-economics, and time series data with applications in finance and macro-economics. DT Learning-support features include concise, manageable sections of text, frequent cross-references to related and background material, summaries, computational schemes, keyword lists, suggested further reading, exercise sets, and online data sets and solutions. DT Derivations and theory exercises are clearly marked for students in advanced courses. This textbook is perfect for advanced undergraduate students, new graduate students, and applied researchers in econometrics, business, and economics, and for researchers in other fields that draw on modern applied econometrics.

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for economists.......2007-10-02

good printing quality, but personally I don't like the style of editing. Nevertheless the material is also good for advanced scholars

Conditional Moment Estimation of Nonlinear Equation Systems: With an Application to an Oligopoly Model of Cooperative R&D (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

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Conditional Moment Estimation of Nonlinear Equation Systems: With an Application to an Oligopoly Model of Cooperative R&D (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Joachim Inkmann
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Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of nonlinear systems has two important advantages over conventional maximum likelihood (ML) estimation: GMM estimation usually requires less restrictive distributional assumptions and remains computationally attractive when ML estimation becomes burdensome or even impossible. This book presents an in-depth treatment of the conditional moment approach to GMM estimation of models frequently encountered in applied microeconometrics. It covers both large sample and small sample properties of conditional moment estimators and provides an application to empirical industrial organization. With its comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the subject which includes topics like bootstrapping and empirical likelihood techniques, the book addresses scientists, graduate students and professionals in applied econometrics.

Introduction to the Theory and Application of Data Envelopment Analysis - A Foundation Text with Integrated Software

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Introduction to the Theory and Application of Data Envelopment Analysis - A Foundation Text with Integrated Software
Emmanuel Thanassoulis
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The book aims to introduce the reader to DEA in the most accessible manner possible. It is specifically aimed at those who have had no prior exposure to DEA and wish to learn its essentials, how it works, its key uses, and the mechanics of using it. The latter will include using DEA software. Students on degree or training courses will find the book especially helpful. The same is true of practitioners engaging in comparative efficiency assessments and performance management within their organisation. Examples are used throughout the book to help the reader consolidate the concepts covered.

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Do deficits matter? Yes and no, says Daniel Shaviro in this political and economic study. Yes, because fiscal policy affects generational distribution, national saving, and the level of government spending. And no, because the deficit is an inaccurate measure with little economic content. This book provides an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to know exactly what is at stake for Americans in this ongoing debate.

"[An] excellent, comprehensive, and illuminating book. Its analysis, deftly integrating considerations of economics, law, politics, and philosophy, brings the issues of 'balanced budgets,' national saving, and intergenerational equity out of the area of religious crusades and into an arena of reason. . . . A magnificent, judicious, and balanced treatment. It should be read and studied not just by specialists in fiscal policy but by all those in the economic and political community."—Robert Eisner, Journal of Economic Literature

"Shaviro's history, economics, and political analysis are right on the mark. For all readers."—Library Journal

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Comprehensive, well-written, fair, informative.......2005-01-08

Law professor Daniel Shaviro's Do Deficits Matter? covers just about every issue associated with the topic of public debt, including, say, optimal savings rate, the limitations of fiscal stabilization policy, and generational accounting. The book is meticulously researched, and fair in its presentation of all sides, none of which get short-changed by the author. As a reader you are therefore given the chance to draw your own conclusions. Shaviro comes down against a constitutional balanced budget amendment. This reader finds his considerations of the actual 1995-1997 proposal rather lawyerly and therefore unconvincing (a modern-day lawyer could probably pick the U.S. Constitution itself apart as having lots of holes), but the important thing is that Shaviro's exposition allows you to make up your own mind.

For the most part, the book is highly accessible. Occasionally you'll run into a sentence like "In short, the Madisonian response to faction involved spatial centralization of government alongside institutional decentralization" (p. 289) to describe strong federal government and separation of powers, but those are rare exceptions.

It is refreshing to see a prominent thinker from the left concede three points traditionally made by the right.
* Debt-driven fiscal stimulus policies are flawed in both theoretical concept and practical efficacy: "even most Keynesians now recognize that the case for an actively countercyclical fiscal policy is extremely weak" (p. 10).
* Public debt constitutes a burden on future generations: "younger individuals and future generations will end up paying for government spending on behalf of older individuals and current generations", a phenomenon Shaviro labels "tax lag" (p. 4).
* The very fact that government is able to borrow inherently leads to a larger government sector than would be the case without borrowing: "tax lag tends to increase government spending by reducing its perceived (and real) cost to current voters" (p. 146).

Public debt is like a giant redistribution scheme that transfers wealth from future generations to earlier ones. This is okay with Shaviro because future generations are likely to be wealthier than today's, e.g. because of continued developments in technology. Although he stipulates that this is not sure, it is certainly not unreasonable to deem this likely. But the fact that Shaviro has no qualms about this intergenerational redistribution scheme reveals a liberal bias. What makes public debt unethical is the fact that future generations end up facing a financial burden that is the result of spending and borrowing decisions in which they had no participation. Just because someone else is wealthier than you are does not mean you are therefore justified to go ahead and take part or all of that wealth without that person's consent.

Still, if you can see past the author's personal view -- and his overall exposition is for the most part so fair, nonpolemical, and accessible that in this case that is not very difficult -- the book is highly informative and worthwhile. Hence, even this libertarian reader assigns it four stars.

A fascinating thought-provoking read.......1998-08-08

Shaviro has written an excellent and informative book about a (seemingly) important issue. The book nicely summarizes much of economic literature in non-technical terms. I would highly recommend this book to anyone (including non-specialist economists who want a quick introduction to this area).

My one complaint is that the book -- as is clear from the introduction -- is very U.S. centric and has only a few references to other countries. For example, the discussion of why shifting powers to the states might limit the size of government (since they can not print money and therefore can not run persistent deficits and can only tax so much before taxpayers move to escape high taxes) seems to go against the experience of some other federal countries (e.g., Brazil) where the states seem willing to be quite profligate (perhaps relying on federal bailouts).

What Deficit?.......1998-01-01

According to the author, "over the past twenty-five years, the deficit debate among economists has grown increasingly discordant, reflecting the issue's increasing prominence, the growing size of reported deficits, and the collapse of 1960s Keynesianism."

Daniel Shaviro is professor of law at New York University and a former legislation attorney with the Joint Committee on Taxation of the United States Congress. There are few lawyers who write like economists (or better) and Shaviro's mastery of the development of economic thought is both judicious and impressive.

Nevertheless, if we can judge the state of economic arguments by papers presented at the annual convention of economists, there would seem to be a reduction in papers even dealing with the the Federal budget deficit. At the end of 1997, most policy-makers are celebrating the virtual elimination of the deficit, and the question becomes one of whose taxes should be cut? In this respect, Shaviro's rather conservative position seems to be one of accepting $200 billion deficits for some time.

In my view, a great deal of the skeptical view of economists with regard to the Federal deficit has been the result of the heroic writings of the Classical Keynesian, Robert Eisner, former President of the American Economic Association, reinforced by the last writings of Nobel Prize winner William Vickrey.

Shaviro treats Eisner's writings with critical respect and even admits a certain renaissance in Keynesian thinking as a result of the prediction failures of the monetarists, including the rational expectations and real business cycle extensions of neo-classical thinking.

This reviewer was pleased to see a younger political economist take the views of Abba Lerner seriously, particularly his pathbreaking article on "functional financs." Shaviro maintains that "Lerner was perhaps the leading early post-World Waw II Keynesian economist in the United States, not a marginal figure or a crank." If true, how does one explain the endless peregrinations of Professor Lerner searching for tenure?

One little-recognized contribution of Lerner was his recognition of what he called "supply-side inflation" in the seventies, something also understood by the British Keynesian, Sir Roy Harrod, and the Canadian economist John Hotson, who labeled the Harrod insight as the "Harrod dichotomy." Milton Friedman's reassuring claim that "we are all Keynesians now" permitted the eclipse of the Lernerians in theoretical discussions and the continuation of the dogmatic monetarist belief that inflation is always a question of too much money in the system.

More importantly, it resulted in the popularity of Paul Volker's "licking of inflation" with a little-noticed jump of real interest rates in the early eighties and the continued fawning approval of his successor, Alan Greespan, despite the fact that Greenspan has given up the use of monetary aggregates to determine his monetary policy decisions.

Shaviro seems overly impressed with an "independent" Fed conducting monetary policy (except for Burns in 1972), and it is very difficult for this reviewer to go along with Shaviro's conclusion that "deliberate management of the business cycle should generally be left to the Federal Reserve, acting through monetary policy."

The persistent fears of the Fed concerning demand-pull inflation in the long run have produced passive or cyclical deficits and eventually deflation. It is no accident that the postwar record deficits have all been passive and achieved by Republican Administrations beginning with Eisenhower and ending with Bush.

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Do Deficits Matter?
Daniel Shaviro
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Do Deficits Matter?
Daniel Shaviro
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International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments: Do Current Account Deficits and Surpluses Matter?
Barbara Dluhosch , Andreas Freytag , and Malte Kruger
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Country-bashing tariffs: Do bilateral trade deficits matter? (Working paper / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
W. Michael Cox
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Do federal budget deficits matter? (Community economics)
Ayse Somersan
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Safian "never fails to display his pest manners"

I wish I had followed the advice of other reviewers

WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!!! THE BOOK IS COMPLETE GARBAGE!!!!

Awful!

It will leave them thought-less!

The Giant Book Of Insults: Incorporating 2000 Insults for All Occasions and 2000 More Insults
Louis Safian
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Safian "never fails to display his pest manners" .......2005-04-26

Almost any joke book you pick up is going to sound stupid after a few pages of jokes. That's because jokes are generally context-dependent, and to just have an endless barrage of printed one-lners fired at you is not a fun, or funny, experience.

That being said, this is one of the worst joke books that I've ever seen. It's a compilation of two previous collections by Safire, both of which were originally published in the 60s. This leads to one big problem, which is that many of the insults have become dated beyond belief. I have a hard time believing that some of them weren't horrifically dated in the 60s. "When a fellow gets fresh, she counts to ten- thousand." "He's as indolent as an old bachelor." "He's the type who'll sell himself to the highest biddy." Not only do these examples seem dated, but you'll notice that they're also lacking in cleverness, humor, and even sense. "He's sure to leave pussyfoot prints on the sands of time." What the heck does that even mean? If it helps, it's in the chapter "Bamboozlers."

Even the chapter headings speak of a bygone era. Chapter headings include Big Heads, Cream Puffs, Idlers, Playgirls, Sad Sacks, Screwballs, Sharpies, Show-oafs, Tactless Boors, Woolgatherers, and Squelches. I expect that a lot of these zingers originated in pre-WWII vaudeville acts.

The sad thing is, there are some serviceable insults in here that are pretty funny. For example, "she's been on more laps than a napkin" could be funny in the proper context. If the editors had taken the time to spruce this book up, it would have been much better. In a nutshell, here are the things Safire has done wrong:

Every single insult has been included instead of just funny ones
There are no illustrations that could have broken up the text or been humorous in and of themselves
None of the insults have been updated or modernized, even though it would have been simple to do so
None of the insults cite a source, which excludes a long list of funny insults from celebrities and historical figures
There seems to be a limit of about 20 words or so per insult. A variety of lengths would have have broken up the monotony and opened the door to funnier lines

Of course, with the advent of the internet, an insult compilation has become completely obsolete anyhow, so I encourage you to browse the web for all of your humorous insult needs.

I wish I had followed the advice of other reviewers.......2002-06-06

Avoid this book unless you crave corny and woefully outdated 'insults' and 'jokes' (which were anything but funny). Have not read other books of this genre, so I cannot make a recommendation of another title. My only recommendation is NOT to buy this book.

WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!!! THE BOOK IS COMPLETE GARBAGE!!!!.......2001-08-22

The book is absolute, 100%, ......

I can't believe I wasted my cash on this stupid book. It shouldn't be on the market. The jokes, put-downs, and insults are extremely corny and severely lame.

TRUST ME! STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK AT ALL COST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awful!.......2000-07-16

I can't believe that anyone other that a complete imbecile would think this book, or anything by Louis Safian, is worthy of anything more than one star! The only redeeming thing about this book is the fact most that the insults are so pathetically lame and out-dated that you can have a good chuckle by imagining the people who are genuinely amused by such utterly inane 'put downs' as "They call her ESKIMO MAID-she's always giving people the deep freeze" (and there's plenty more where that came from) have probably tried to use them at some time and, as a consequence, will surely be savagely ridiculed by anyone within earshot for the rest of his or her natural life as well as long after death. A special note to parents: because the 'humor' in this book is so incredibly feeble, ponderous and prosaic (and yet at the same time, strangely smug) it will have an irresistible appeal to children. Unless you want your son or daughter explaining to you and everyone you know, love or ever meet that "Your such a blockhead that you probably get a sliver in your finger whenever you scratch your head", DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD EVEN BECOME AWARE OF THIS BOOK'S EXISTENCE!

It will leave them thought-less!.......1999-11-04

You will make them feel like they should have never messed with you!

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