Department of Economics (ECO)

What Happens to Wage Elasticities When We Strip Playometrics? Revisiting Married Women Labour Supply Model. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 190. (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Qin, D., van Huellen, S., & Wang, Q. C. What Happens to Wage Elasticities When We Strip Playometrics? Revisiting Married Women Labour Supply Model. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 190. London

This paper sheds new light on the well-known phenomenon of dwindling wage elasticities for married women in the US over the recent decades. Results of a novel model experiment approach via sample data ordering unveil considerable heterogeneity across... Read More about What Happens to Wage Elasticities When We Strip Playometrics? Revisiting Married Women Labour Supply Model. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 190..

Consolidation of the Haavelmo-Cowles Commission Research Program (2014)
Journal Article
Qin, D. (2015). Consolidation of the Haavelmo-Cowles Commission Research Program. Econometric Theory, 31(2), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266466614000309

Much of modern econometrics stems directly from the post-1940 works of Haavelmo and the Cowles Commission (CC) Monograph 10. This paper examines the consolidation process of the Haavelmo-CC research program mainly during the 1950–70 period from three... Read More about Consolidation of the Haavelmo-Cowles Commission Research Program.

How Much Has Informal Credit Lending Responded to Monetary Policy in China? The Case of Wenzhou (2014)
Journal Article
Qin, D., Xu, Z., & Zhang, X. (2014). How Much Has Informal Credit Lending Responded to Monetary Policy in China? The Case of Wenzhou. Journal of Asian Economics, 31-32, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2014.03.001

This study investigates empirically what the major factors are which have driven Wenzhou's informal credit market and how much that market is responsive to monetary policies and the formal banking conditions nationwide. A number of relatively stable... Read More about How Much Has Informal Credit Lending Responded to Monetary Policy in China? The Case of Wenzhou.

Inextricability of Autonomy and Confluence in Econometrics (2014)
Journal Article
Qin, D. (2014). Inextricability of Autonomy and Confluence in Econometrics. Œconomia (En ligne), 4(3), 321-341. https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.883

This paper examines how “confluence” and “autonomy,” two key concepts introduced by Frisch around 1930, have disappeared in econometrics textbooks and why only some fragments of the two have survived mainstream econometrics. It relates the disappeara... Read More about Inextricability of Autonomy and Confluence in Econometrics.

Modelling Scale Effect in Cross-section Data: The Case of Hedonic Price Regression (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Qin, D., & Liu, Y. Modelling Scale Effect in Cross-section Data: The Case of Hedonic Price Regression

A History of Econometrics: the reformation from the 1970S (2013)
Book
Qin, D. (2013). A History of Econometrics: the reformation from the 1970S. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199679348.001.0001

This book is a sequel of Qin's previous OUP volume The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective. That book traces the history roughly during the period 1930-1960. The present book is focused on the reformists’ movements mainly during the 1... Read More about A History of Econometrics: the reformation from the 1970S.

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