Lars P. Syll

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Gretl — econometrics made easy  [embedded content] Thanks to Allin Cottrell and Riccardo Lucchetti we today have access to a high-quality​ tool for doing and teaching econometrics — Gretl. And, best of all, it is totally free! Gretl is up to the tasks you may have, so why spend money on expensive commercial programs? The latest snapshot version of Gretl can be downloaded here. [And yes, I do know there’s another fabulously good and free program — R. But R...

What properties do societies possess that might make them possible objects of knowledge for us? My strategy in developing an answer to this question will be effectively based on a pincer movement. But in deploying the pincer I shall concentrate first on the ontological question of the properties that societies possess, before shifting to the epistemological question of how these properties make them possible objects of knowledge for us. This is not an arbitrary order of...

A primer on causal inference  [embedded content] D H Kim’s twelve videos give a splendid introduction to modern thinking on causality. Highly recommendable student stuff!

Causation and causal inference [embedded content] Who said science presentations have to be boring?

Prediction vs Causal Inference  [embedded content]

Econometrics as a testing device Debating econometrics and its short-comings yours truly often gets the response from econometricians that “ok, maybe econometrics isn’t perfect, but you have to admit that it is a great technique for empirical testing of economic hypotheses.” I usually respond by referring to the text below … Most econometricians today … believe that the main objective of applied econometrics is the confrontation of economic theories with...

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