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Micro Data On Capital Inputs: Attempts to Reconcile Stock and Flow Information
Biørn, Erik; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Skjerpen, Terje - 2000
We evaluate consequences of some important assumptions ofthe perpetual inventory method of capital stock calculation under geometric depreciation. The data are plant-level panel data from the Norwegian manufacturing statistics, containing independent measures of capital stocks and gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968038
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Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data
Biørn, Erik; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Skjerpen, Terje - 2000
This paper analyses the importance of scale economies by means of unbalanced plant-level panel data from three Norwegian manufacturing industries. Focus is on heterogeneous technologies, and unlike most previous work on micro data, the model description includes heterogeneity in both the scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968062
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Micro Data On Capital Inputs: Attempts to Reconcile Stock and Flow Information
Biørn, Erik; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Skjerpen, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000
We evaluate consequences of some important assumptions ofthe perpetual inventory method of capital stock calculation under geometric depreciation. The data are plant-level panel data from the Norwegian manufacturing statistics, containing independent measures of capital stocks and gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980628
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Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data
Biørn, Erik; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Skjerpen, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000
This paper analyses the importance of scale economies by means of unbalanced plant-level panel data from three Norwegian manufacturing industries. Focus is on heterogeneous technologies, and unlike most previous work on micro data, the model description includes heterogeneity in both the scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980732
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Handling the measurement error problem by means of panel data: Moment methods applied on firm data
Biørn, Erik - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002
The estimation of a linear equation from panel data with measurement errors is considered. The equation is estimated (I) by methods operating on the equation in differenced period means, and (II) by Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) procedures using (a) the equation in differences with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086454
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The efficiency of panel data estimators: GLS versus estimators which do not depend on variance components
Biørn, Erik - 2001
For a balanced panel data regression model with random effects, we discuss the efficiency of the GLS estimator relative … to the OLS, the between, and the within estimators. Focus is on how the efficiency responds to changes in (a) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284342
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The effect of activity-based financing on hospital efficiency: A panel data analysis of DEA efficiency scores 1992-2000
Biørn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
efficiency. We predict that hospital efficiency will increase because the benefit from cost-reducing efforts in terms of number … from the period 1992-2000. Efficiency indicators are estimated by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) with multiple … inputs and outputs. Using a variety of econometric methods, we find that the introduction of ABF has improved efficiency when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979462
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Estimating SUR Systems with Random Coefficients: The Unbalanced Panel Data Case
Biørn, Erik - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012
A system of regression equations (SURE) for analyzing panel data with random heterogeneity in intercepts and coefficients, and unbalanced panel data is considered. A Maximum Likelihood (ML) procedure for joint estimation of all parameters is described. Since its implementation for numerical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785522
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Estimating SUR systems wiht random coefficients: The unbalanced panel data case
Biørn, Erik - 2012
A system of regression equations (SURE) for analyzing panel data with random heterogeneity in intercepts and coefficients, and unbalanced panel data is considered. A Maximum Likelihood (ML) procedure for joint estimation of all parameters is described. Since its implementation for numerical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330261
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The rate of capital retirement: How is it related to the form of the survival function and the investment growth path?
Biørn, Erik - 2000
We discuss the relationship between the retirement process of the capital, as formalized by its survival function, and the average retirement rate, and how this relationship is affected by changes in the investment path. The effect of the survival function on the age distribution of the capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284355