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Amos Golan
Professor
Contact Information
Department of Economics
Roper 219
Tel: (202) 885-3783
Fax: (202) 885-3790
Email: agolan@american.edu
The 2nd Conference on Information and Entropy Econometrics: In Honor of George Judge (Sept. 23-25, 2005)
Information
and Entropy Econometrics: A conference in Honor of A. Zellner (Sept. 19-23, 2003)
Summer Program in Applied Econometrics
Education
BA (Economics) 1980, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MS 1982, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. 1988, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
- Information Theoretic Methods of Estimation and Inference
- Information and Entropy Econometrics: Entropy/Information and GME Resources
- Statistics and Information Systems
- Image Reconstruction: Examples of Image Reconstruction
- Econometrics/Micro-econometrics (Theory and Applied)
- Policy and Applied Micro Economics
- Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics of Economic Systems and Data
Honors, Fellowships
- NSF/ASA/Census Senior Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - The Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany)
- Elected Member – International Statistical Institute
- Senior Visiting Fellowship (2007) - Institute of Advanced Study (University of Bologna)
Editorial Services
- Guest Editor, Journal
of Econometrics. Special Two-Issues on “Information
and Entropy Econometrics,” (Volume 107, Issues 1-2, March,
2002). [Table of Contents]
- Guest Co-Editor (with Y. Kitamura), Journal
of Econometrics. Special Issue on “Information and Entropy Econometrics,” based on selected papers presented at the IEE Conference (2007).
- Guest Co-Editor (with E. Maasoumi), Econometric
Reviews. Special Issue on “Information and Entropy Econometrics,” based on selected papers presented at the IEE2 Conference (Forthcoming).
- Editorial Board and Associate Editor- Econometric Reviews
- Editorial Board – Foundations
and Trends in Econometrics
- Editorial Board (until 2006) – Entropy,
An On-Line International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies
Additional Teaching
- Mongolian Central Bank and Ministry of Finance; New and Information-Theoretic Econometrics – Training on analyzing complex and incomplete data (June, 2007).
- The Netherlands Network of Economics, one/two week course on New and Information-Theoretic Econometrics (May, 1997; June, 2001; June, 2004).
- The Scandinavia Network of Universities, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Copenhagen, May, 1999).
- The Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Munich, Germany, July, 1999).
- Economic Research Service – USDA, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Washington, DC, October 2000).
- UC Berkeley, two weeks course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (1996, 1998).
Selected Publications
Books
Jeffrey M. Perloff, Larry S. Karp, Amos Golan (2007), Estimating Market Power and Strategies, Cambridge University Press. [Link to Publisher's Website]
Amos Golan, George G. Judge, Douglas Miller (1996), Maximum Entropy Econometrics: Robust Estimation with Limited Data, John Wiley & Sons. [Link to Publisher's Website]
Articles
A. Golan, "Information
and Entropy Econometrics — A Review and Synthesis", Foundations
and Trends® in Econometrics: Vol. 2: No 1–2, pp 1-145. [Book
Information Link]
A printed and bound version of this article is available at
a 50% discount from Now Publishers. This can be obtained by entering
the promotional code MC08004 on the
order form at now publishers. You will then pay $45/Euro
plus postage.
A. Golan and E. Maasoumi, "Information Theoretic and Entropy
Methods – Editors’ Summary," Econometric Reviewss (Forthcoming)
A. Golan, "Information and Entropy Econometrics – Volume
Overview and Synthesis," Journal of Econometrics (2007).
[Link
to the Full Volume and a Link to the Article]
A. Golan, J. Lane and E. McEntarfe, "The Dynamics of Worker
Reallocation within and Across Industries." Economica (2007)
74, 1-20 [Link
to the Article]
X. Wu, J. Perloff and A. Golan, "Effect of Government Policies
on Urban and Rural Income Inequality," Review of Income and
Wealth (2006) 52, 213-235.
A. Golan, A. Bhati and B. Buyuksahin, "An Information-Theoretic
Approach for Image Reconstruction: The Black and White Case"
in Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and
Engineering: 25th International Workshop (MAXENT 2005), K. Knuth,
ed. (2005).
U.v. Toussaint, A. Golan and V. Dose and, "Maximum Entropy
Decomposition of Quadrupole Mass Spectra." Journal of Vacuum
Science and Technology A 22(2), Mar/Apr 2004, 401-406.
A. Golan and J. M. Perloff, "Superior Forecasts of the U.S.
Unemployment Rate Using a Nonparametric Method," Review of
Economics and Statistics 88(1), 2004, 433-438.
A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. M. Perloff, "A Small Sample
Estimation of the Sample Selection Model," Econometric Reviews
23(1), 2004, 71-91.
A. Golan and L. Marsh, "An Information Theoretic Approach
to Estimating Missing Categorical Dependent Variable Values,"
American Statistical Association Proceedings (2004).
A. Golan "An Information Theoretic Approach for Estimating
Nonlinear Dynamic Models," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics
& Econometrics (December, 2003) Vol. 7: No. 4.
A. Golan and H. Gzyl, Priors and Information-Theoretic Estimation,
American Statistical Association Proceedings (2003).
A. Golan and H. Gzyl, "A Generalized Maxentropic Inversion
Procedure for Noisy data," Applied Mathematics and Computation
127 (2002) 249-260.
A. Golan, "Information and
Entropy Econometrics – Editor’s view," J. Econometrics
107, 1-2 (2002), 1-15.
A. Golan and J. M. Perloff, "Comparison
of Maximum Entropy and Higher-Order Entropy Estimators,"
J. Econometrics 107, 1-2 (2002), 195-211.
A. Golan and D. Volker, "Tomographic
Reconstruction from Noisy Data," Bayesian Inference
and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering: 21st International
Workshop (MAXENT 2001), R. Fry, ed. (Am. Inst. Physics, Forthcoming).
A. Golan and D. Volker, "A
Generalized Information Theoretical Approach to Tomographic Reconstruction,"
J. of Physics A: Mathematical and General (2001) 1271-1283.
A. Golan, "A
Simultaneous Estimation and Variable Selection Rule"
J. Econometrics (January, 2001), 101:1, 165-193. (Incomplete
version)
A. Golan, L. Karp and J. M. Perloff, "“Estimating
Firms' Mixed Price and Advertising Strategies: Coke and Pepsi,"
J. Bus. Econ. Stat. (October, 2000), 18: 4, 398-409.
A. Golan, J. M. Perloff and Z. Shen, "Estimating
a Demand System With Non-negativity Constraints: Mexican Meat
Demand," Review of Economics and Statistics (2001),
83(3), 541-550.
A. Golan and H. Gzyl, "A Generalized Maxentropic Inversion
Procedure for Noisy data," Applied Mathematics and Computation
(Forthcoming).
Golan and S. Vogel, “Estimation of Non-Stationary Social Accounting
Matrix Coefficients With Supply-Side Information,” Economic
Systems Research (December, 2000), 12:4, 447-471.
M. Crouchane, A. Golan and D. Nickerson, "Estimating
and Evaluation of Loan Discrimination - An Informational Approach,"
J. Housing Research (2000), 11:1, 67-90.
Y. Agnon, A. Golan and M. Shearer, "Nonparametric, Nonlinear,
Short-Term Forecasting: Theory and Evidence for Nonlinearities
in the Commodity Markets," Econ. Letters 65 (1999)
293-299.
A. Golan, “Maximum Entropy Approach for Estimating Nonlinear
Dynamic Models,” Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods,
W. V. D. Linden and V. Dose, ed. (Kluwer Academic Press, 1999).
A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. Perloff, ""A
Small-Sample Estimation of the Sample-Selection Model."
A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. Perloff, "An Informational Based
Sample-Selection Estimation Model of Agricultural Workers Choice
Between Piece-Rate and Hourly Work," American Journal
of Agricultural Economics, 81 (1999) 735-741.
A. Golan, "Maximum Entropy, Likelihood and Uncertainty:
A Comparison," Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods,
G. Erickson, ed. (Kluwer Academic Press, 1998).
A. Golan, G. G. Judge and J. Perloff, "Estimation and Inference
With Censored and Ordered Multinomial Response Data," Journal
of Econometrics 79 (1997) 23-51.
A.Golan, G. G. Judge and D. Miller, "Information Recovery
in Simultaneous Equations' Statistical Models," Handbook
of Applied Economic Statistics, D. Giles and A. Ullah, eds.
(Marcel Dekker, 1998) 365-380.
Selected Conference/Session Organization
- Organizer of the first (summer, 1996) and second (summer,
1997, Invited Session) “Maximum Entropy Econometrics and Statistical
Economics” sessions of the North America Summer Econometrics
Meetings.
- Scientific Committee (and organizer) for the 1997-1999 Maximum-Entropy
and Bayesian Conferences.
- Organizer (with J. Perloff) of an Invited Session in the Winter
American Economic Assoc. Meetings (NY, January 1999).
- Organizer of an Invited Session for the Society for Nonlinear
Dynamics and Econometrics (Florence, Italy, March 2003).
- Chair and Organizer of a conference on Information and Entropy
Econometrics, IEE, (AU, September 19-21, 2003). Conference was
sponsored (and funded) by the American Statistical Association,
the Jaynes Fund, ONR and CAS-AU.
- Chair and Organizer of the second conference on Information
and Entropy Econometrics, IEE2 (September, 2005; External sponsors/grants
include Am. Stat. Assoc., The Jaynes Foundation, Giannini Foundations).
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