Scientific Workstations for Research in Computationally- Intensive Econometric Methods

计算机存储和处理信息能力的急剧提高导致了微观经济分析的重新定位。计算机密集的方法越来越多地用于探索更大更复杂的数据库，并在这些分析的基础上提高推理能力。在改进半参数和非参数估计程序方面，创新尤其重要。为了解决这个问题，一群著名的经济学家，他们都是经验丰富、富有成果的科学家，已经开发了一个网络，以共同解决估计和其他计算网络发展中的遗留问题。这些研究人员已经开始开发计算机工作站的综合网络。通过这个网络，他们将交换数据和项目，以进一步刺激新方法的开发和测试。该奖项提供资金，使密歇根大学的研究人员能够获得一台工作站并将其连接到该网络。该工作站将被研究者和他的教员同事以及研究生用来改进计算方法，并通过分析与广泛问题相关的微观经济数据来测试这些方法。该奖项将使由全国公认的微观经济分析计算方法进步的领导者领导的一组研究人员能够加快步伐并扩大他们的调查范围。这些研究人员将在计算方法方面取得有价值的进步，无论是一般的还是更集中的利益，通过他们与其他主要经济学家的合作，他们将刺激其他领域的研究。

Dramatic increases in the capacity of computers to store and process information has resulted in a reorientation of microeconomic analyses. Computer- intensive methods increasingly have been used to explore larger and more complex databases and to sharpen the inferences based on those analyses. Innovation has been especially significant with respect to the improvement of semiparametric and nonparametric estimation procedures. To address this problem, a group of leading economists, all of whom are experienced and productive scientists in their own rights, have developed a network to collectively address remaining problems in the development of estimation and other computational networks. Those investigators have begun development of an integrated network of computer workstations. Through this network, they will exchange data and programs in order to further stimulate development and testing of new methods. This award provides funds to enable an investigator at the University of Michigan to acquire a workstation and link it into this network. The workstation will be used by the investigator and his faculty colleagues and graduate students to improve computational approaches and to test those approaches through analyses of microeconomic data related to a broad range of issues. This award will enable a group of researchers led by a nationally recognized leader in advancements of computational methods for microeconomic analysis to accelerate the pace and expand the scope of their inquiries. These researchers will make valuable advances of both general and more focused benefit regarding computational methodologies, and through their involvement in a network of other leading economists, they will stimulate research in other settings.