Using a panel data set on the local telecommunications companies reporting to the FCC
for 1988-95, this paper investigates the subadditivity of the cost function, as well as
technical and allocative inefficiency of the ...
This dissertation explores the intricacies associated with the use of distance
functions in empirical studies. It focuses on the measurement of advertising
efficiency and investigates the properties of the models that ...
This dissertation is composed of three essays regarding the finite sample properties of estimators
for nonparametric models.
In the first essay we investigate the finite sample performances of four estimators for addit ...
