Seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) is an important estimation methodology in demand analysis. While possessing qualities that make it attractive to applied demand analysts, the SUR estimation technique poses several difficulties, including the lack of parameter invariance in some instances...

We introduce a simple method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis. The method is based on two scalar measures. The first is the relative frequency with which an observation appears in the construction of the frontier when testing the efficiency of other observations, and the...

Standard microeconomic theory has long recognized firm-level substitution and output effects in explaining aggregate responses to taxation of an input such as nitrogen fertilizer. However, in the presence of managerial heterogeneity, a nitrogen tax will also affect the composition of the...