A Guide to Econometrics and Ethics the Heart of Leadership

A Guide to Econometrics

Author: Peter Kennedy

This is the perfect (and essential) supplement for all econometrics classes--from a rigorous first undergraduate course, to a first master's, to a PhD course.

• Explains what is going on in textbooks full of proofs and formulas
  
• Offers intuition, skepticism, insights, humor, and practical advice (dos and don’ts)
  
• Contains new chapters that cover instrumental variables and computational considerations
  
• Includes additional information on GMM, nonparametrics, and an introduction to wavelets

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Dedication
1	Introduction	1
2	Criteria for Estimators	11
3	The Classical Linear Regression Model	47
4	Interval Estimation and Hypothesis Testing	60
5	Specification	81
6	Violating Assumption One: Wrong Regressors, Nonlinearities, and Parameter Inconstancy	107
7	Violating Assump tion Two: Nonzero Expected Disturbance	129
8	Violating Assumption Three: Nonspherical Disturbances	133
9	Violating Assumption Four: Measurement Errors and Autoregression	157
10	Violating Assumption Four: Simultaneous Equations	180
11	Violating Assumption Five: Multicollinearity	205
12	Incorporating Extraneous Information	218
13	The Bayesian Approach	230
14	Dummy Variables	248
15	Qualitative Dependent Variables	259
16	Limited Dependent Variables	281
17	Panel Data	301
18	Time Series Econometrics	319
19	Forecasting	358
20	Robust Estimation	372
21	Applied Economectrics	389
App. A	Sampling Distributions, the Foundation of Statistics	418
App. B	All about Variance	423
Ap p. C	A Primer on Asymptotics	429
App. D	Exercises	436
App. E	Answers to Even-numbered Questions	516
	Glossary	544
	Bibliography	550
	Name Index	601
	Subject Index	610

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Ethics, the Heart of Leadership

Author: Joanne B Ciulla

The study of ethics and leadership can be traced back to Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks. Against the backdrop of corporate, political, and religious scandal, a contemporary examination of the complex and subtle relationships between ethics and leadership could not be more timely. In this updated and expanded edition, Joanne Ciulla presents a unique collection of essays by philosophers, leadership scholars with backgrounds in industrial and organizational psychology, and management theorists. The authors tackle such profound questions as: How do leaders motivate followers to achieve their goals? What is the moral relationship between leaders and followers? Are ethical leaders driven by self-interest or altruism? What is the ethical value of a leader's accomplishments? Do their actions serve the greatest good? Featuring new essays by Bruce Avolio and Edwin Locke, Terry Price, Bernie Bass and Paul Steidlmeier, and a foreword by James MacGregor Burns, this book probes what the answers to these questions mean for today's leaders, offering hands-on insights into the ethical dynamics that make the heart of leadership tick.

Booknews

An interdisciplinary collection of essays about the ethics of leadership. Three philosophers, two industrial psychologists, a historian, and a management scholar discuss topics such as business ethics, the leader-follower relationship, the problem o f bogus empowerment, a Federalist ethic for organizations, and the ethics of transformational leadership. The focus is on the practical questions of ethics rather than on the larger philosophical questions surrounding ethical theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
1	Leadership ethics : mapping the territory	3
2	Moral leadership and business ethics	25
3	Ethical challenges in the leader-follower relationship	47
4	Leadership and the problem of bogus empowerment	59
5	Ethical leadership, emotions, and trust : beyond "charisma"	83
6	Should leaders be selfish or altruistic? : letters on leader motivation	105
7	Explaining ethical failures of leadership	129
8	The trouble with transformational leadership : toward a federalist ethic for organizations	149
9	Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior	175