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2. Towards Econometric Mathematical Programming for Policy Analysis

Author : Bruno Henry de Frahan

Published in: Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

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Abstract

This contribution focuses in reviewing the development of positive mathematical programming towards econometric mathematical programming. Starting with the entropy approach it reviews alternative approaches and model specifications that appeared in the recent PMP-related literature for estimating those nonlinear terms that achieve the accurate calibration of optimisation programmes and guide the simulation response to policy scenarios. Combining recent contributions from this literature, it then proposes a possible framework to estimate and calibrate simultaneously model parameters ready to use for performing policy simulations.

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Metadata
Title
Towards Econometric Mathematical Programming for Policy Analysis
Author
Bruno Henry de Frahan
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-13486-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-13487-7

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13487-7_2