Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171822 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Econometrics [ISSN:] 2225-1146 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 187-198
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Although economic processes and systems are in general simple in nature, the underlying dynamics are complicated and seldom understood. Recognizing this, in this paper we use a nonstationary-conditional Markov process model of observed aggregate data to learn about and recover causal influence information associated with the underlying dynamic micro-behavior. Estimating equations are used as a link to the data and to model the dynamic conditional Markov process. To recover the unknown transition probabilities, we use an information theoretic approach to model the data and derive a new class of conditional Markov models. A quadratic loss function is used as a basis for selecting the optimal member from the family of possible likelihood-entropy functional(s). The asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators are demonstrated, and a range of potential applications is discussed.
Subjects: 
conditional moment equations
controlled stochastic process
first-order Markov process
Cressie-Read power divergence criterion
quadratic loss
adaptive behavior
JEL: 
C40
C51
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Document Type: 
Article

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