Introduction

The 36th volume of Advances in Econometrics in honor of Aman Ullah is a collection of 19 articles contributed by his former students, colleagues, and academic friends, covering a wide range of issues in econometrics. The volume mostly draws upon the works presented at the conference that took place at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside California on March 13–15, 2015.

The volume is organized into six parts. Part I. Tribute (one article) includes a review that pays tribute to the professional career of Aman Ullah. The remaining 18 articles of the volume are organized into five parts corresponding to five general econometrics topics to which Ullah has contributed extensively over the course of his career. These are: Part II. Panel Data Models (four articles), Part III. Finite Sample Econometrics (two articles), Part IV. Information and Entropy (three articles), Part V. Issues in Econometric Theory (three articles), and Part VI. Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods (six articles). We follow a similar ordering of these six parts to that of the conference program. In each part, the order of articles is alphabetical according to the first author’s last name.