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对称误差下潜在变量边界的估计AI 解读

Consider the model Y=X+ε with X=τ+Z, where τ is an unknown constant (the boundary of X), Z is a random variable defined on R+, ε is a symmetric error, and ε and Z are independent. Based on an iid sample of Y, we aim at identifying and estimating the boundary τ when the law of ε is unknown (apart from symmetry) and in particular its variance is unknown. We propose an estimation procedure based on a minimal distance approach and by making use of Laguerre polynomials.…

非参数生产模型的假设检验AI 解读

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and free disposal hull (FDH) estimators are widely used to estimate efficiency of production. Practitioners use DEA estimators far more frequently than FDH estimators, implicitly assuming that production sets are convex. Moreover, use of the constant returns to scale (CRS) version of the DEA estimator requires an assumption of CRS. Although bootstrap methods have been developed for making inference about the efficiencies of individual units,…

效率前沿的非参数工具变量估计AI 解读

The paper investigates endogeneity issues in nonparametric frontier models. It considers a nonseparable model for a cost function C=φ(Y,U) where C and Y are the cost and the output, U is uniform in [0,1] and φ is increasing with respect to U. The cost frontier corresponds to U=0 and U can be interpreted as a normalized level of inefficiency. The endogeneity issue arises when Y is dependent of U. For identification and estimation, we use a nonparametric instrumental variables…

非参数前沿估计中的不可观测异质性与内生性AI 解读

In production theory, firm efficiencies are measured by their distances to a production frontier. In the presence of heterogeneous conditions (like environmental factors) that may influence the shape and the position of the frontier, traditional measures of efficiency obtained in the space of inputs/outputs are difficult to interpret, since they mix managerial inefficiency and shift of the frontier. This can be corrected by using nonparametric conditional efficiencies. In…

单调凹前沿函数的估计AI 解读

Abstract When analyzing the productivity of firms, one may want to compare how the firms transform a set of inputs x (typically labor, energy or capital) into an output y (typically a quantity of goods produced). The economic efficiency of a firm is then defined in terms of its ability to operate close to or on the production frontier, the boundary of the production set. The frontier function gives the maximal level of output attainable by a firm for a given combination of…