Pedro Mira

DOCTORAL STUDIES:
 Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 1995.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
 Empirical microeconomics; Labor and demographic economics; estimation of dynamic models of discrete choice.

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LINKS:
       Investigaciones Económicas
       SHARE
       European Economic Review

PUBLICATIONS:

• "Dynamic discrete choice structural models: A survey” [with Victor Aguirregabiria ], Journal of Econometrics (2009), forthcoming.
• "An estimable dynamic model of entry, exit and growth in oligopoly retail markets” [with Victor Aguirregabiria and Hernán Román], American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2007), forthcoming.
• "Sequential estimation of dynamic discrete games" [with Victor Aguirregabiria], Econometrica 75 (2007), 1-54.
• "Uncertain Infant Mortality, Learning and Life-Cycle Fertility", International Economic Review (2007), forthcoming.
• "A Dynamic Model of Contraceptive Choice of Spanish Couples" [with Jesús Carro], Journal of Applied Econometrics 21 (2006), 955-980.
• "A hybrid genetic algorithm for the maximum likelihood estimation of models with multiple equilibria: A first report” [with Víctor Aguirregabiria], New Mathematics and Natural Computation 1 (2005), 295-303.
• "Swapping the nested fixed point algorithm: A class of estimators for discrete Markov decision models" [with Victor Aguirregabiria], Econometrica 70 (2002), 1519-1543.
• "A Note on the Changing Relationship Between Fertility and Female Employment in Developed Countries" [with N. Ahn], Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002), 667-682.
• "Job Bust, Baby Bust: Evidence from Spain", [with N. Ahn], Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001), 505-521.
• "A quantitative analysis of Swedish fertility dynamics: 1751-1990" [with Z. Eckstein and K. Wolpin], Review of Economic Dynamics, 2 (1999), 137-165.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

• “Structural Estimation of Games when the Data Come from Multiple Equilibria” [with Victor Aguirregabiria]
• “Stability of Nested Pseudo Likelihood Fixed Points and sequential estimation of structural models” [with Victor Aguirregabiria]
• “Caregiving to elderly Parents and employment status of European mature women” [with Laura Crespo]