Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution and Scientific Methodology

DANIEL SLOTTJE is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting Inc.'s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice, and provides consulting services to clients in various industries. He has significant experience in litigation consulting in intellectual property matters, including patent infringement issues, copyrights and trademarks, as well as trade secrets. In addition to advising counsel, he has provided testimony in these and other matters. Dr. Slottje is a Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and is a former partner in an international consulting firm. He has published more than 120 articles and written several books on economic issues. Dr. Slottje was ranked one of the top three applied econometricians in the world (out of 5,000 people), based on number of published articles in top econometrics journals in 1999. He has been quoted in national newspapers and has appeared on Fox, CBS, and NBC affiliates.

I Econometrics Essays.- 1 About the Contribution of Econometrics to the Advancement of Knowledge: The Macroeconomic Relevance of Microeconomic Data.- 2. Two Aspects of the Methodology of Modeling Deterministic Processes and Evaluation.- 3. An Extension of the Gauss-Markov Theorem for Mixed Linear Regression Models with Non-Stationary Stochastic Parameters.- 4. Computation in Macroeconomic Model-Building: Some Historical Aspects.- 5. Measuring Informativeness of Data by Entropy and Variance.- 6. Significance of the Nonuniqueness of Neoclassical Direct Utility Functions Especially When They are Empirically Confirmed.- II Essays on Income Distribution (Empirical).- 7 Welfare Disparity Among Subgroups of Population: The Method of Analysis with an Application.- 8. Measuring Welfare Changes and the Excess Burden of Taxation.- 9. Decomposing the Redistributive Effect of Taxes: New Measures of Vertical Equity and Inequity.- 10. Income Transformation and Income Inequality.- 11. A Note on the Gini Measure for Discrete Distributions.- 12. Distributional Preferences and the Extended Gini Measure of Inequality.- 13. On Some Implications of Dagum's Interpretation of the Decomposition of the Gini Index by Population Subgroups.- III Essays on Scientific Methodology.- 14. The End of Science.- 15. Statistical Inference and Inductive Prevision.- 16. The Scientific Training.- IV Essays on Income Distribution (Theory).- 17. A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures.- 18. Independence and Changes in the Size Distribution of Income.- 19. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Dominance Using Generalized Lorenz Curves.- V Camilo Dagum. Scientific Publications.