Econometrics and Management Science: Their Overlap and Interaction

This is an expository article on the relationship of econometrics and management science. After some general observations it considers a number of applications, such as prediction on the basis of input-output models and of econometric macromodels and decision-making based on linear decision rules. These rules are applied to cost minimization in a factory and welfare maximization for a country as a whole. In the last part of the paper some attention is paid to uncertainty problems with respect to the constraints subject to which maximization or minimization takes place.