This second extended and revised edition provides an update of all existent chapters to reflect on new developments in the area as well as several new chapters on topics such as machine learning, nonparametric models,networks, and multi-dimensional panels in health economics. The book serves as a standard reference work, a textbook for graduate students in economics, and a source of background material for professionals conducting empirical studies.
Laszlo Matyas is a well-known Hungarian-Australian economist/econometrician. He (co)authored and (co)edited several high impact publications in econometrics, mostly in the field of panel data. Currently he is a University Professor at the Central European University (CEU – Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria). Earlier, among others, he worked as Senior Lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), was the founding Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (Budapest, Hungary), and also served as Provost of CEU.