A micro-meso-macro perspective on the methodology of evolutionary economics: integrating history, simulation and econometrics

John Foster ()

No 343, Discussion Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: Applied economics has long been dominated by multiple regression techniques. In this regard, econometrics has tended to have a narrower focus than, for example, psychometrics in psychology. Over the last two decades, the simulation and calibration approach to modeling has become more popular as an alternative to traditional econometric strategies. However, in contrast to the well-developed methodologies that now exist in econometrics, simulation/calibration remains exploratory and provisional, both as an explanatory and as a predictive modelling technique although clear progress has recently been made in this regard (see Brenner and Werker (2006)). In this paper, we suggest an approach that can usefully integrate both of these modelling strategies into a coherent evolutionary economic methodology.

Date: 2007
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cmp, nep-ecm, nep-evo, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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