John Knight and Lina Song
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198293309
- eISBN:
- 9780191684975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198293309.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter summarizes the conclusions of each chapter, and integrates them into an argument. It then considers the policy implications of analysis when government objectives are partly exogenous ...
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This chapter summarizes the conclusions of each chapter, and integrates them into an argument. It then considers the policy implications of analysis when government objectives are partly exogenous and partly endogenous. Lastly, the chapter places the Chinese experience within a broader empirical and theoretical context of rural–urban relationships, and states that we have been concerned to analyse rural–urban relationships in China in both a normative and a positive sense: to evaluate and to explain the difference in economic welfare between peasants and workers. It also discusses the implications for policy and the Chinese experience in perspective and states that the Chinese case can be viewed from two perspectives, the empirical and the theoretical. Comparisons can be made to other countries to establish whether the rural–urban divide in China is ordinary or extra-ordinary. Various models of rural–urban relationships can also be examined for their relevance to the Chinese experience.Less
This chapter summarizes the conclusions of each chapter, and integrates them into an argument. It then considers the policy implications of analysis when government objectives are partly exogenous and partly endogenous. Lastly, the chapter places the Chinese experience within a broader empirical and theoretical context of rural–urban relationships, and states that we have been concerned to analyse rural–urban relationships in China in both a normative and a positive sense: to evaluate and to explain the difference in economic welfare between peasants and workers. It also discusses the implications for policy and the Chinese experience in perspective and states that the Chinese case can be viewed from two perspectives, the empirical and the theoretical. Comparisons can be made to other countries to establish whether the rural–urban divide in China is ordinary or extra-ordinary. Various models of rural–urban relationships can also be examined for their relevance to the Chinese experience.
Bernt P. Stigum
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028585
- eISBN:
- 9780262323109
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028585.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
Chapter III explains and illustrates what it means for an economic theory to be empirically relevant. A theory’s empirical relevance depends on the empirical context in which it is tested and on the ...
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Chapter III explains and illustrates what it means for an economic theory to be empirically relevant. A theory’s empirical relevance depends on the empirical context in which it is tested and on the explication of empirical relevance. In present-day econometrics the empirical context of a test is determined by the characteristics of the data generating process. Also, the theory is empirically relevant if and only if the test gives the researcher no reason to reject the theory. In formal econometrics the empirical context of a test is determined by a probability distribution of the data - the MPD - that is induced by the probability distribution of the theory variables and the bridge principles. Also, the theory is empirically relevant if and only if there is a model of its axioms and a model of the bridge principles that determine a model of the MPD that belongs to a 95% confidence band around a meaningful statistical estimate of the MPD. Examples from experimental economics, consumer choice, simultaneous equations, and choice among safe and risky assets illustrate the contrasting characteristics of the notion of empirical relevance in present-day and formal econometrics.Less
Chapter III explains and illustrates what it means for an economic theory to be empirically relevant. A theory’s empirical relevance depends on the empirical context in which it is tested and on the explication of empirical relevance. In present-day econometrics the empirical context of a test is determined by the characteristics of the data generating process. Also, the theory is empirically relevant if and only if the test gives the researcher no reason to reject the theory. In formal econometrics the empirical context of a test is determined by a probability distribution of the data - the MPD - that is induced by the probability distribution of the theory variables and the bridge principles. Also, the theory is empirically relevant if and only if there is a model of its axioms and a model of the bridge principles that determine a model of the MPD that belongs to a 95% confidence band around a meaningful statistical estimate of the MPD. Examples from experimental economics, consumer choice, simultaneous equations, and choice among safe and risky assets illustrate the contrasting characteristics of the notion of empirical relevance in present-day and formal econometrics.
