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In this paper we have proposed new techniques for simplifying the estimation of disequilibrium models by avoiding constrained maximum likelihood methods (which cannot avoid numerous theoretical and practical difficulties mentioned above) including an unrealistic assumption of the independence of errors in demand and supply system of equations. In the proposed first stage, one estimates the relative magnitude of the residuals from the demand and supply equations nonparametrically, even though they suffer from omitted variables bias, because the coefficient of the omitted variable is known to be the same in both equations. The reason for using nonparametric methods is that they do not depend on parametric functional forms of biased (bent inward) demand and supply equations. The first stage compares the absolute values of residuals from conditional expectations in order to classify the data points as belonging to the demand or the supply curve. We estimate the economically meaningful scale elasticity and distribution parameters at the second stage from classified (separated) data.
We extend nonparametric kernel estimation to the r = 4 case to improve the speed of convergence, as predicted by Singh's [1981] theory. In the first stage, r = 4 results give generally improved R2 and ¦t¦ values in our study of the Dutch data—used by many authors concerned with the estimation of floorspace productivity. We find that one can obtain reasonable results by our approximate but simpler two stage methods. Detailed results are reported for four types of Dutch retail establishments. More research is needed to gain further experience and to extend the methodology to other disequilibrium models and other productivity estimation problems.
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Vinod, H.D. Kernel estimation for disequilibrium models for floorspace efficiency in retailing. J Prod Anal 1, 79–94 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00161739
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