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Simultaneous Equation System

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Definition: By "system" is meant that there are multiple, related, estimable equations. By simultaneous is meant that two quantities are jointly determined at time t by one another's values at time t-1 and possibly at t also. Here's a simultaneous equation system example, from Greene, (1993, p. 579), of market equilibrium:

qd=a1p+a2+ed (Demand equation)

qs=b1p+es (Supply equation)

qd=qs=q

Here the quantity supplied is qs, quantity demanded is qd, price is p, the e's are errors or residuals, and the a's and b's are parameters to be estimated. We have data on p and q, and the quantities supplied and demanded are conjectural.

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