This article tests the effects of Oscar awards on the production of feature films. Time series data for Spain over the 1953-2014 period are used and a production function is estimated assuming that the Oscar effects accrue through the total factor productivity. A lag structure is introduced...

The manufacturing industry plays a key role in ensuring long-term and sustainable economic development. Although the impact of the service and information technology sectors on economic growth has increased recently, reindustrialization trends have appeared especially in developing and...

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...