When dealing with nonlinear econometric models, resort is often made to simulation techniques for the investigation of their dynamic properties. A spectral analysis using stochastic and analytic simulation is carried out on a nonlinear model of the Italian economy. The two approaces are...

The stochastic simulation of an econometric model is an application of Monte Carlo methods. Deterministic simulation is performed setting error terms to zero. Stochastic simulation, on the contrary, takes into account the disturbance terms, solving the model after adding a vector of...

This paper presents a Monte-Carlo study on the practical reliability of numerical algorithms for FIML-estimation in nonlinear econometric models. The performance of different techniques of Hessian approximation in trust-region algorithms is compared regarding their "robustness" against "bad"...