經濟博士班需要的數學 - 經濟

※ 引述《hsiuchuanwin (win)》之銘言：
: 唯一的不同是，計量模式或評價模式推導的學者，可以有機會贏得諾貝爾，
: 而實證的學者，跟據我所知，目前還沒有人獲得諾貝爾，

This is definitely wrong and misleading.

Let's look at some of the Nobel Laureates in the past 15 years.

In 2004, Kydland and Prescott got the prize "for their contributions to dynamic
macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces
behind business cycles." The second part - identifying driving forces behind
business cycles" - is empirical (calibration).

In 2002, Vernon Smith got the prize "for having established laboratory
experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis."

In 2000, James Heckman got the prize "for his development of theory and
methods for analyzing selective smaples." However, all his contributions in
econometric theory were motivated by the needs of his extensive and numerous
empirical studies on labor economics, and especially education.

In 1998, Amartya Sen got the prize "for his contribution to welfare economics."
The Nobel Press Release talks about his contributions in detail. In brief,
His contributions range from (1) axiomatic theory of social choice, over
(2) definitions of welfare and poverty indexes, to (3) empirical studies of
famine. Note that (2) and (3) are both empirical studies.

In 1993, Robert Fogel and Douglass North gor the prize "for having renewed
research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative
methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." If you look
in detail about what they have contributed, you will see they did a lot of
empirical works, and this part was also emphasized in the Nobel Press Release.

Gary Becker, the Nobel Laureat in 1992, did extensive empirical works to test
his theories. His empirical work is also mentioned in the Nobel Press Release.
In fact, we cannot separate Becker's empirical work from his contribution in
theory.


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