DYNAMICAL PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS IN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Econometric analysis of fire suppression production functions for large wildland fires

In this paper, we use operational data collected for large wildland fires to estimate the parameters of economic production functions that relate the rate of fireline construction with the level of fire suppression inputs (handcrews, dozers, engines and helicopters). These parameter estimates are then used to evaluate whether the productivity of fire suppression inputs during extensive fire sup...

Econometric Analysis of Production Networks with Dominant Units

This paper considers production and price networks with unobserved common factors, and derives an exact expression for the rate at which aggregate ‡uctuations vary with the dimension of the network. It introduces the notions of strongly and weakly dominant and non-dominant units, and shows that at most a …nite number of units in the network can be strongly dominant. The pervasiveness of a netwo...

A.3 Spatial Econometric Functions in R

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Econometric Frontier Functions*

The estimation of production functions has been one of the more popular areas of applied econometrics. Recent work in duality theory which has linked production and cost functions has made this topic even more attractive. Typically, least squares (or some variant, such as two stage or generalized least squares) is used to estimate the model of interest in accordance with the assumption of a nor...

Dynamical parton distribution functions

Recent measurements for F2(x, Q ) have been analyzed in terms of the ‘dynamical’ and ‘standard’ parton model approach at NLO and NNLO of perturbative QCD. Having fixed the relevant NLO and NNLO parton distributions, the implications and predictions for the longitudinal structure function FL(x,Q ) are presented. It is shown that the previously noted extreme perturbative NNLO/NLO instability of F...