Papers

For a clear overview of the maximum entropy (ME) approach see Golan-Judge-Miller's monograph.   The following is a partial list of papers that use ME.

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

Amos Golan and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Comparison of Maximum Entropy and Higher-Order Entropy Estimators," Journal of Econometrics, March 2002, 107(1-2):195-211.  Working paper PDF version: High entropy.

Edward Z. Shen and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Approaches to the Ratio Problem," Journal of Econometrics.  104(2), September 2001: 289-313,  PDF version,  Journal version. Science Direct.

Amos Golan,  Jeffrey M. Perloff, Edward Z. Shen, "Estimating a Demand System with Nonnegativity Constraints: Mexican Meat Demand," Review of Economics and Statistics.  83(3), August 2001: 541-50, PDF version: Meat.

Amos Golan, Enrico Moretti, and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "An Informational Based Sample-Selection Estimation Model of Agricultural Workers' Choice Between Piece-Rate and Hourly Work," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(3), August 1999:735-41.    A prepublication PDF version: Piece Rate.

Amos Golan, Larry S. Karp, Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Estimating Coke and Pepsi's Price and Advertising Strategies," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 18(4), October 2000:398-409.  Prepublication PDF version: Pepsi.

Amos Golan, "Notes on Why Maximum Entropy Econometrics," forthcoming, A. Bera and R. Koenker, eds., Volume in Honor of George Judge, New York: Wiley.

Douglas J. Miller, and Andrew J. Plantinga, "Modeling Land Use Decisions with Aggregate Data," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(1), February 1999:180-194.

Amos Golan, "Maximum Entropy Approach for Estimating Nonlinear Dynamic Models," W.V.D. Linden and V. Dose, eds., Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Kluwer Academic Press, 1999.

Amos Golan, "Entropy, Likelihood, and Information," G. Erickson, ed., Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Kluwer Academic Press, 1998.

Amos Golan and George Judge, "Information Recovery in Simultaneous Equations' Models," In D. Giles and A. Ullah (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1998, pp. 365-381.

Sergio H. Lence, and Douglas J. Miller, "Recovering Output-Specific Inputs from Aggregate Input Data: A Generalized Cross-Entropy Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80(4), November, 1998:852-867.

Sergio H. Lence, and Douglas J. Miller, "Estimation of Multi-Output Production Functions with Incomplete Data: A Generalised Maximum Entropy Approach," European Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(2), 1998:188-209.

Amos Golan, George Judge, and Douglas Miller, "The Maximum Entropy Approach to Estimation and Inference: An Overview," In C. Hill and T. Fomby (Eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Greenwich: JAI Press., 1997, pp. 3–24.

Amos Golan, George Judge, Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Estimation and Inference with Censored and Ordered Multinomial Response Data," Journal of Econometrics, 79(1), July 1997:23-51.

Amos Golan, and George G. Judge, "Recovering Information in the Case of Underdetermined Problems and Incomplete Economic Data," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 49, 1996: 127–136.

Amos Golan, George G. Judge, and Larry S. Karp, "A Maximum Entropy Approach to Estimation and Inference in Dynamic Models or Counting Fish in the Sea with Maximum Entropy," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20, 1996: 559–82.

Amos Golan, George Judge, Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Recovering Information from Multinomial Response Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91(434), June 1996:841-53.

Amos Golan, George Judge, Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Estimating the Size Distribution of Firms Using Government Summary Statistics," Journal of Industrial Economics, 79(1), March 1996:69-80.  PDF version: Size.

T. C. Lee and George G. Judge, "Entropy and Cross-Entropy Procedures for Estimating Transition Probabilities from Aggregate Data," In D. A. Barry et al. (Ed.), Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996.

Amos Golan, George G. Judge, and Sherman Robinson, "Recovering Information from Incomplete or Partial Multisectoral Economic Data," Review of Economics and Statistics, 76, 1994: 541–49.

WORKING PAPERS:

Ximing Wu and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Maximum Entropy Density Estimation with Grouped Data," working paper October 2003.  PDF version: Group.

Amos Golan and Steve Vogel, "Estimation of Non-Stationary Social Accounting Matrix Coefficients With Supply-Side Information," 1999.

Amos Golan, P. Pecher, and D. Volker, "A Maximum Entropy Decomposition Quadrupole Mass Spectra," 1999.

Amos Golan, and D. Volker, "A Generalized Inversion Procedure for Estimating a Tomography Problems," 1999.

Amos Golan, "A Simultaneous Estimation and Variable Selection Rule," 1999.

Amos Golan and H. Gzyl, "A Generalized Maxentropic Inversion Procedure for Noisy Data," 1999.

M. Crouchane and Amos Golan, "Estimating and Evaluation of Loan Discrimination: An Informational Approach," 1999.

Amos Golan and N. Zeitouni, "Determining the Scale Properties and Size Distribution of Multi-Product Firms," 1998.

Amos Golan, Larry S. Karp, Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Estimating a Mixed Strategy: United and American Airlines," June 1998. PDF version: Air.

Amos Golan, Enrico Moretti, and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "A Small-Sample Estimator for the Sample-Selection Model," April 1998.  PDF version: Selection.