A Computational Economics Approach to Policy Models: Applications to Natural Resources

  • Date: 03/25/2008
Lecturer(s):

Richard Howitt (University of California, Davis)

Location: 

University of Calgary

Topic: 

Dr. Howitt's talk will focus on Maximum Entropy estimators and
Chebychev polynomial approximations to costate functions, with examples
available for download in two papers, Estimating Disaggregate Production Functions: An Application to Northern Mexico and Estimating Intertemporal Preferences For Natural Resource Allocation(subscription access).

Other Information: 

10th Anniversary Speaker Series 2006

Sponsor: 

pims