These two volumes, with their focus on econometrics, contain papers
delivered at the Fifth World Congress held in l985. Designed to make
material accessible to a general audience of economists, these papers
should be helpful to anyone with training in economics who wishes to
follow new ideas and tendencies in the subject. Advances in
Econometrics, Fifth World Congress, Volumes 1 & 2 include a wide variety
of topics, comprising empirical and policy oriented subjects as well as
theoretical and methodological ones.