Scientific Workstations for Research in Computationally- Intensive Econometric Methods

计算机的处理能力急剧增加， 存储和处理信息， 微观经济分析的重新定位。 电脑- 密集的方法越来越多地被用来探索 更大和更复杂的数据库， 根据这些分析得出的结论。 创新一直是 特别是在改善 半参数和非参数估计程序。 到 为了解决这个问题，一群领先的经济学家，所有 他们都是经验丰富、多产的科学家， 已经建立了一个网络来共同解决 在制定估计和 其他计算网络。 那些调查员 开始开发一个综合的计算机网络， 工作站。 通过这个网络，他们将交换 数据和方案，以进一步刺激发展 测试新方法。 该奖项提供资金， 使密歇根大学的一名研究人员能够 获取一个工作站并连接到这个网络 的 研究者及其工作站将使用 教师同事和研究生，以提高 计算方法并测试这些方法 通过分析宏观经济数据， 一系列问题。 该奖项将使一组研究人员领导的 全国公认的领导者， 微观经济分析的计算方法 加快步伐，扩大范围， 询问。 这些研究人员将取得有价值的进展 一般和更集中的好处， 计算方法，并通过他们的参与， 在一个由其他主要经济学家组成的网络中， 鼓励在其他环境中进行研究。

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.