One is forced to accept that all empirical work in economics, whether “experimentalist” or “structural,” relies critically on a priori theoretical assumptions. But once we accept the key role of a priori assumptions, and the inevitability of subjectivity, in all inference, how can we make more progress in applied work in general?
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%1 keane:2006
%A Keane, Micheal P.
%D 2006
%K economectrics theory
%T Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics
%U http://gemini.econ.umd.edu/jrust/research/JE_Keynote_7.pdf
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title = {Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics},
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