Causality, prediction, and specification analysis: Recent advances and future directions

摘要

It is with great pleasure that we have been honored with the responsibility of editing this very special volume of the Journal of Econometrics. The issue collects papers that were invited for a conference to honor Halbert L. White on the occasion of his 60th birthday, held at the University of California, Rady School of Management, San Diego during May 6–7, 2011. Originally, this special conference was meant to honor Hal White’s achievements and accomplishments in the field of econometrics, and was attended primarily by over 100 of his co-authors, current, and former students. After the conference, we were all immensely saddened by Hal’s passing, and this conference volume took on a much deeper meaning, in that all of the contributors wrote papers that saluted Hal’s immense contributions in areas of both theoretical and applied econometrics.