I am an applied economist with expertise in empirical microeconomics and environmental and resource economics.
My philosophy is that combining both empirical and theoretical approaches (or put differently, normative and positive approaches) is essential in economic research. Theoretical models that fail to exlain observed economic phonenomena should not be used to construct policy advice. Empirical findings that are not well founded in economic theory and cannot advance economic models, no matter how interesting they might be, shoud not be used in informing policies. In this sense, I concur with Heckman (QJE, 2000; JPE, 2001) on the nature of empirical economics.
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