This paper provides a brief description of all the data we provided for use in our experiment in applied econometrics: aggregate time-series data for the USA and The Netherlands; cross-section sample-survey budget data for the USA; and cross-section household level budget data for The...

Sensitivity analysis is important for its own sake and also in combination with diagnostic testing. We consider the question how to use sensitivity statistics in practice, in particular how to judge whether sensitivity is large or small. For this purpose we distinguish between absolute and...

This paper examines the conditions for homothetic separability of a technology that is an aggregate of technologies of individual firms or industries. Given that the primitive (industry or firm) technologies exhibit homothetic separability, the authors establish necessary and sufficient...