Introduction to quantitative economics

An Introduction to Quantitative Economics is designed to enable students on main courses in Economics to read and comprehend literature which employs econometric techniques as a method of analysis, to use econometric techniques them selves to test hypotheses about economic relationships and to understand some of the difficulties involved in interpreting results.

While the book is mainly aimed at second-year under graduates undertaking courses in applied economics, its scope is sufficiently wide to take in students at postgraduate level who have no background in econometrics. The objective is to integrate fully the mathematical and statistical techniques used in econometrics with micro- and macroeconomic case studies. At the same time, most of the formal mathematical and statistical proofs that are usually found in econometric text books have been omitted, on the grounds that such sophistica tion is unsuitable at this level of study.

This is the fourth book in a new student series edited by C. D. Harbury, who is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the City University, London.

Brian Haines teaches economics and econometrics at the Polytechnic of Central London.