Professor Marc Nerlove

@article{Ghysels1993ProfessorMN,
  title={Professor Marc Nerlove},
  author={Eric Ghysels},
  journal={Econometric Theory},
  year={1993},
  volume={9},
  pages={117 - 143}
}
  • Eric Ghysels
  • Published 1 January 1993
  • Economics
  • Econometric Theory
As the field developed, econometricians tended to become more specialized in specific areas like labor, empirical macro, time series, finance, and so on. Even thirty or forty years ago, when specialization was not as widespread, very few researchers stood out from the rest of the profession as scholars who left their imprint on very different areas. Marc Nerlove is among those very few whose scientific writings touched so many different areas of econo- 
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Factors Affecting Changes in Managerial Decisions
ABSTRACT It is commonly held that revealed managerial decisions depend on the interaction of risk attitudes and preferences, as well as market and firm conditions. In agriculture, production plans…

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