Volume 40B of Advances in Econometricsexamines innovations in stochastic frontier analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric modeling and estimation, A/B experiments, big-data analysis, and quantile regression.

This paper proposes a parsimonious model to investigate the conjecture of non monotonous relation between a firm's product market performance and its capital structure with special reference to emerging economy. A semi-parametric model has been proposed here to understand the non-linearity...