Untested assumptions and data slicing: a critical review of firm-level production function estimators

This paper surveys the most popular parametric and semi-parametric estimators for Cobb-Douglas production functions arising from the econometric literature of the past two decades. We focus on the different approaches dealing with 'transmission bias' in firm-level studies, which arises fro...

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Main Authors: Eberhardt, M, Helmers, C
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2010