2 papers
econ.GN2024
Economic growth of cities: Does resource allocation matter?
Sheng Dai, Timo Kuosmanen, Zhiqiang Liao
We study how efficient resource reallocation across cities affects potential aggregate growth. Using optimal resource allocation models and data on 284 China's prefecture-level cit…
stat.ME2023
Modeling economies of scope in joint production: Convex regression of input distance function
Timo Kuosmanen, Sheng Dai
Modeling of joint production has proved a vexing problem. This paper develops a radial convex nonparametric least squares (CNLS) approach to estimate the input distance function wi…