• Preface; Part I. Model Building: 1. Some basic results; 2. Covariates and the hazard function; 3. Parametric families of duration distribution; 4. Mixture models; 5. Some important processes; 6. Some structural transition models; Part II. Inference: 7. Identifiability issues; 8. Fully parametric inference; 9. Limited information inference; 10. Misspecification analysis; 11. Residual analysis; Appendix 1: The gamma function and distribution; Appendix 2: Some properties of the Laplace transform; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an important book. It provides an excellent, comprehensive introduction to a rapidly expanding field of econometric methods …'. Economica

• Preface; Part I. Model Building: 1. Some basic results; 2. Covariates and the hazard function; 3. Parametric families of duration distribution; 4. Mixture models; 5. Some important processes; 6. Some structural transition models; Part II. Inference: 7. Identifiability issues; 8. Fully parametric inference; 9. Limited information inference; 10. Misspecification analysis; 11. Residual analysis; Appendix 1: The gamma function and distribution; Appendix 2: Some properties of the Laplace transform; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an important book. It provides an excellent, comprehensive introduction to a rapidly expanding field of econometric methods …'. Economica

• Preface; Part I. Model Building: 1. Some basic results; 2. Covariates and the hazard function; 3. Parametric families of duration distribution; 4. Mixture models; 5. Some important processes; 6. Some structural transition models; Part II. Inference: 7. Identifiability issues; 8. Fully parametric inference; 9. Limited information inference; 10. Misspecification analysis; 11. Residual analysis; Appendix 1: The gamma function and distribution; Appendix 2: Some properties of the Laplace transform; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an important book. It provides an excellent, comprehensive introduction to a rapidly expanding field of econometric methods …'. Economica