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- From: apk@athena.mit.edu (Alan Kaufman)
- Subject: applied micro-econ: a newcomer seeks help
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:52:14 GMT
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- Hello. I'm newcomer to economics; my background is in statistics
- and optimization. I'm working on a project involving the recycling
- of old newspapers, and I want to model how the markets have evolved
- and what might happen down the road. The phrase "applied microeconomics"
- might sum up what I want to try.
-
- I've read the Project Independence report and the criticisms of it
- (US energy planning from the 1970s, using a LP to solve some
- complementarity conditions) and it didn't "feel right" -- assumptions
- of supply/demand curves, the linearization, the model's voracious
- appetite for data.
-
- Anybody have any suggestions, or references to other models or
- approaches in the literature?
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- Thanks. Apologies if this seems somewhat naive... I'm just getting started.
-