This paper introduces an alternative environmentally sensitive productivity growth index,
which is circular and free from the infeasibility problem. In doing so, we integrated the …

Nonparametric Econometrics Page 1 Nonparametric Econometrics Methods I Aman Ullah
University of California, Riverside A.Ullah (UCR) NP slides Page 2 Books A. Pagan and A …

We decompose labor-productivity growth into components attributable to (1) technological
change (shifts in the world production frontier),(2) technological catch-up (movements …

This paper defines two distribution free goodness-of-fit test statistics for copulas. It states
their asymptotic distributions under some composite parametric assumptions in an …

Using nonparametric, production‐frontier methods, we decompose labor productivity growth
into components attributable to technological change (shifts in the world production frontier) …

摘要本文发现, 进入$# 世纪=# 年代, 我国省区经济增长分布从“单峰状” 逐渐演进为“双峰状”,
趋同文献把这种现象称为“双峰趋同”. 本文采用数据包络法(B) D) 把我国(# 个省区的增长归因于 …

The challenge of the econometric problem in production efficiency analysis is that the
efficiency scores to be analyzed are unobserved. Statistical properties have recently been …

The study aims to examine foreign direct investment spillover effects on the firms'
productivity performances and to examine the most important component of total factor …

This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in
Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two …

In this paper we consider the problem of testing for equality of two density or two conditional
density functions defined over mixed discrete and continuous variables. We smooth both the …