TY - BOOK ED - National Seminar on Quantitative Techniques in Economics (2009: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah) ED - Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata TI - Proceedings of UGC sponsored national seminar on quantitative techniques in economics on 2 April 2009 U1 - SB:330 PY - 2009/// CY - Howrah PB - Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira KW - Economics KW - Quantitative Techniques N1 - Including Index; Growth Theory and the Macroeconomics of Development -- Time Series Analysis -- Cost allocation on networks -- On Quantiles in Multivariate and Regression Problems -- A Simple Model of Trade Driven Wage Inequality N2 - The subjects of this National Seminar is 'Quantitative Techniques in Economics' with the explosion in the use of mathematical techniques in Economics, there has been overlapping of the discipline of statistics and mathematics with that of economics. Mathematical tools go a long way in precisely setting the arguments used in economic analysis. There have been occasional reservations about economics getting overshadowed by the rigours of mathematical tools. Nevertheless, mathematical has increasingly made its way into the subject and serious students need to have a through grasp over mathematical tools to be fluent in economic analysis. ER -