Contributions to Consumer Demand and Econometrics

Part 1 Consumer demand analysis: maids under additive preferences, Nisha Agrawal and Alan A.Powell; a test of normality in non-linear systems of consumer demand equations, William A.Barnett; the estimation of mixed demand systems, Anton P.Barten; accounting for non-stationarity in demand systems, Ronald Beweley and Graham Elliott; Henri Theil's contributions to demand analysis, Kenneth W.Clements, E.A.Selvanathan and Saroja Selvanathan; economic inequality and consumer demand - theory and applications, Tran Van Hoa. Part 2 Econometric methods: efficiency of alternative estimators in generalized seemingly unrelated regression models, Robert Bartels and Denzil G.Fiebig; one-sided and inequality tests for a pair of means, Arthur S.Goldberger; decomposition of least squares estimators and covariance matrices, Teun Kloeck; mixing forecasts in linear simultaneous equations under quadratic loss, Esfandiar Maasoumi; Edgeworth approximations to the distribution of the likelihood ratio and F statistics in the null and nonnull cases, A.L.Nagar and Charu Chandrika; the perils of underestimation of standard errors in a random-coefficients model and the bootstrap, Baldev Raj; simple estimators for dynamic panel data models with errors in variables, Tom Wansbeek and Arie Kapteyn.