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Qualitative Structural Analysis: Game or Science?

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Analysing the Structure of Econometric Models

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Prior to any assessment of the scope and limits of qualitative structural analysis, there is an obvious task to be done: defining what can be expected from such an analysis which can by no means constitute an end in itself.

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Royer, D., Ritschard, G. (1984). Qualitative Structural Analysis: Game or Science?. In: Ancot, J.P. (eds) Analysing the Structure of Econometric Models. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6098-5_1

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