This paper discusses the solution of nonlinear integral equations with noisy integral kernels as they appear in nonparametric instrumental regression. We propose a regularized Newton-type iteration and establish convergence and convergence rate results. A particular emphasis is on instrumental...

This paper considers the estimation of panel data models by first differences in the presence of endogenous variables and under an instrumental variables condition. This framework leads to the resolution of linear inverse problems solved using a Tikhonov regularization with L2 or Sobolev...

Conditional efficiency captures efficiency of firms facing heterogeneous environmental conditions. Traditional approaches estimate nonparametrically conditional distribution requiring smoothing techniques. We rather use a flexible nonparametric location-scale model to eliminate the dependence of...

In production theory and efficiency analysis, we estimate the production frontier, the locus of the maximal attainable level of an output (the production), given a set of inputs (the production factors). In other setups, we estimate rather an input (or cost) frontier, the minimal level of the...

We propose a quasi-Bayesian nonparametric approach to estimating the structural relationship φ among endogenous variables when instruments are available. We show that the posterior distribution of φ is inconsistent in the frequentist sense. We interpret this fact as the ill-posedness of the...