A Note on the Importance of Testing for Regularities for Estimated Flexible Functional Forms

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-143

  Salvanes, Kjell G ^a   TjØtta, Sigve ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Estimated flexible functional forms; Subadditivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032392770     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018304516721     Document Type: Article

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