Henri Theil’s Contributions to Economics and Econometrics

of Volume II.- Three: Demand Analysis.- Section 3.1 Three Early Papers.- 34 Qualities, Prices and Budget Enquiries.- 35 Substitution, Complementarity, and the Residual Variation Around Engel Curves.- 36 The Information Approach to Demand Analysis.- Section 3.2 Index Numbers.- 37 Best Linear Index Numbers of Prices and Quantities.- 38 On the Geometry and the Numerical Approximation of Cost of Living and Real Income Indices.- 39 A New Index Number Formula.- Section 3.3 Modelling the Disturbances in Demand Systems.- 40 An Economic Theory of the Second Moments of Disturbances of Behavioral Equations.- 41 A Theory of Rational Random Behavior.- Section 3.4 The Econometries of Demand Systems.- 42 The Effect of Measurement Errors on the Estimation of Demand Systems.- 43 The Two Perils of Symmetry-Constrained Estimation of Demand Systems.- 44 A Simple and Efficient Estimation Method for a Non-Linear Demand System.- 45 The Independence Transformation: A Review and Some Further Explorations.- 46 The Independence Transformation under Almost Additivity.- Four: Information Theory.- Section 4.1 Demand Analysis.- 47 Budget Share Transitions in the Netherlands, 1952–1977.- Section 4.2 Economic Inequality and International Comparisons.- 48 International Inequalities and General Criteria for Development Aid.- 49 International Comparisons of Prices and Quantities Consumed.- 50 Regional Per Capital Incomes and Income Inequalities: Point Estimates and Their Standard Errors.- 51 Inequality and Social Status in Successive Generations.- 52 World Income Inequality and its Components.- 53 The Development of International Inequality 1960–1985.- Section 4.3 Applications in Econometrics.- 54 A Maximum Entropy Approach to the Specification of Distributed Lags.- 55 Information-Theoretic Measuresof Fit for Univariate and Multivariate Linear Regressions.- Section 4.4 Input-Output Analysis.- 56 Linear Aggregation in Input-Output Analysis.- 57 The Information Approach to the Aggregation of Input-Output Tables.- 58 A Comparison of Shift-Share and the RAS Adjustment.- Section 4.5 Application in Business and Finance.- 59 On the Use of Information Theory Concepts in the Analysis of Financial Statements.- Section 4.6 Application in Social Sciences.- 60 The Desired Political Entropy.- 61 A Note on the Measurement of Racial Integration of Schools by Means of Informational Concepts.