Estimators

EconIRL is a research build. It centers on one reference estimator, the nested fixed point (NFXP), and treats the rest as answers to specific complications that break NFXP’s canonical case.

Read this page as the menu, not as the evidence. The detailed assumptions, identification arguments, examples, and validation results live on the estimator pages linked below.

The estimators are organized into two sections:

• Core Estimators - NFXP, the exact reference replicated to Rust (1987) Table IX.

• Other Estimators - every other estimator, grouped by the source of complexity it answers.

For the reasoning behind the split, the canonical NFXP case, and side-by-side decision tables, see Choosing and Comparing Estimators.