Abstract:

This compendium of existing econometric software packages is intended to be a full census of all existing packages of this type that are publicly available and used by economists today.It is intended to provide the developer’s view of each package: in all but a few instances, the person providing each entry is the primary author or current principal developer of thepackage. These program descriptions generally provide both a development history and astatement of current capabilities. Most entries also include references to more detaileddescriptions, including manuals and other publications, as well as providing a website URL.