Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a box-cox cost function

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 319-335

  Koebel, Bertrand ^a   Falk, Martin ^b   Laisney, François ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic least squares; Concavity; Inequality restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037386480     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500103288618981     Document Type: Article

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