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Robustness

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Robustness
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lars Peter Hansen
By (author) Thomas J. Sargent
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178
Category/GenreMacroeconomics
ISBN/Barcode 9780691170978
ClassificationsDewey:339
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 28 June 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the model completely. But what should a decision maker do if the model cannot be trusted? Lars Hansen and T

Author Biography

Lars Peter Hansen is the Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Thomas J. Sargent is professor of economics at New York University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of The Conquest of American Inflation and the coauthor of The Big Problem of Small Change (both Princeton).

Reviews

Lars Peter Hansen, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics "The book is self-contained and rigorous and may be interesting not only for macroeconomists who seek to improve the robustness of decision making process but also for control engineers interested in different applications of their professional abilities."--A. Swierniak, Zentralblatt MATH