Most empirical studies seeking to estimate firm-level production technologies via proxy variable estimators focus on single-output production functions despite that, in practice, the majority of firms produce multiple outputs. Arguably, the primary reason for vast popularity of a single-product...

Productivity studies that use proxy variable estimators routinely specify single-output production functions despite most firms producing multiple outputs. This is usually accomplished by aggregating the firm's outputs using total revenue. Such a formulation rarely provides an adequate...

The Fourier Flexible form provides a global approximation to an unknown data generating process. In terms of limiting function specification error, this form is preferable to functional forms based on second-order Taylor series expansions. The Fourier Flexible form is a truncated Fourier series...

This study investigates convergence in farm size for the period, 1982-1992. Mood's median test is applied to test the hypothesis that the distribution of farm size is equal across 1982, 1987, and 1992. Markov chain model is further applied to characterize the long run tendency of farm size...

The performances of alternative two-stage estimators for the endogenous switching regression model with discrete dependent variables are compared, with regard to their usefulness as starting values for maximum likelihood estimation. This is especially important in the presence of large...

This paper uses a directional output distance function to estimate a multi-output production frontier for a sample of experimental plots grown for the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems project at the University of California, Davis. Cross-sectional technical efficiency indices are...