Imposing curvature and monotonicity on flexible functional forms: an efficient regional approach

DOI10.1007/s10614-010-9215-1zbMath1202.91270MaRDI QIDQ604914

Ron C. Mittelhammer, Hendrik Wolff, Thomas Heckelei

Publication date: 12 November 2010

Published in: Computational Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-010-9215-1

zbMATH Keywords

regularity conditions; cost function; nonlinear inequality constraints; Metropolis-Hastings; flexible functional forms; accept-reject algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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