Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation

Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation
Author: Kenneth Train
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2009-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521766559

This book describes the new generation of discrete choice methods, focusing on the many advances that are made possible by simulation. Researchers use these statistical methods to examine the choices that consumers, households, firms, and other agents make. Each of the major models is covered: logit, generalized extreme value, or GEV (including nested and cross-nested logits), probit, and mixed logit, plus a variety of specifications that build on these basics. Simulation-assisted estimation procedures are investigated and compared, including maximum stimulated likelihood, method of simulated moments, and method of simulated scores. Procedures for drawing from densities are described, including variance reduction techniques such as anithetics and Halton draws. Recent advances in Bayesian procedures are explored, including the use of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and its variant Gibbs sampling. The second edition adds chapters on endogeneity and expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. No other book incorporates all these fields, which have arisen in the past 25 years. The procedures are applicable in many fields, including energy, transportation, environmental studies, health, labor, and marketing.

Modelling in Urban and Regional Economics

Modelling in Urban and Regional Economics
Author: Alex Anas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136460853

This title provides a comprehensive, critical coverage of the progress and development of mathematical modelling within urban and regional economics over four decades.

Modeling in Urban and Regional Economics

Modeling in Urban and Regional Economics
Author: Alex Anas
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415269735

This title provides a comprehensive, critical coverage of the progress and development of mathematical modelling within urban and regional economics over four decades.

Regional and Urban Economics Parts 1 & 2

Regional and Urban Economics Parts 1 & 2
Author: Richard J. Arnott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134352891

A collection of the first section of the "Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics" series, "Regional and Urban Economics: Parts One and Two" is an encyclopaedia containing eight titles: This volume highlights original contributions in regional and urban economics, concentrating mainly on urban economic theory. The contributions focus on the treatment of space in economic theory. Drawing on the body of literature developed by Von Thunen, Christaller and Losch, these chapters explore empirical, theoretical and applied aspects of urban and regional economics which can be divided into the following areas: Location Theory, "Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz, Jacques-Francois Thisse, Masahisa Fujita "and" Urs Schwiezer" Urban Public Finance, "David E. Wildasin" Urban Dynamics and Urban Externalities, "Takahiro Miyao "and" Yoshitsugu" "Kanemoto" Systems of Cities and Facility Location,

Urban Transportation Economics

Urban Transportation Economics
Author: K. Small
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136461655

This title provides a comprehensive review of the economics of urban transportation.

Residential Location Choice

Residential Location Choice
Author: Francesca Pagliara
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642127886

The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range of choices that modellers have to make in order to represent residential choice behaviour. The models presented in this book represent the state-of-the-art and are valuable both as key building blocks for general urban models, and as representative examples of complexity science.