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Rodolfo Benini e gli inizi dell'economia applicata in Italia
[Rodolfo Benini: the beginnings of applied economics in Italy]

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This paper comments the content and methodology of an article published in 1907 by Rodolfo Benini, an Italian statistician active at the beginning o last century, that is credited by Carl F. Christ (A.E.R., 1985)to have been the first to use multiple regression as an instrument of applied demand ananysis. The original calculations are replicated the comments of Benini are reinterpreted in the light of modern theory. The result of the investigation confirm that Benini can indeed be considered one of the founders of modern econometrics.

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  • Sitzia, Bruno, 1998. "Rodolfo Benini e gli inizi dell'economia applicata in Italia [Rodolfo Benini: the beginnings of applied economics in Italy]," MPRA Paper 29418, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2002.
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    2. Henry Ludwell Moore, 1926. "A Theory of Economic Oscillations," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 41(1), pages 1-29.
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    economic hystory; econometric hystory; early econometrics;
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    • B16 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Quantitative and Mathematical
    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)

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