Panel-data estimates of the production function and the revenue function: What difference does it make?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 651-672

  Mairesse, Jacques ^a   Jaumandreu, Jordi ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capacity utilization; Estimation bias; Panel data; Price dispersion; Production function; Revenue function; Specification errors

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PANEL DATA;

EID: 29444442782     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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