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Paradoxes of the public sector productivity measurement
Timo Kuosmanen, Xun Zhou
This paper critically investigates standard total factor productivity (TFP) measurement in the public sector, where output information is often incomplete or distorted. The analysi…
Secondary materials, Pigouvian taxes, and a monopsony
Timo Kuosmanen, Xun Zhou
Secondary materials present promising opportunities for firms to repurpose emissions into marketable goods, aligning with circular economy principles. This paper examines condition…
Axiomatic modeling of fixed proportion technologies
Xun Zhou, Timo Kuosmanen
Understanding input substitution and output transformation possibilities is critical for efficient resource allocation and firm strategy. There are important examples of fixed prop…
Partial frontiers are not quantiles
Sheng Dai, Timo Kuosmanen, Xun Zhou
Quantile regression and partial frontier are two distinct approaches to nonparametric quantile frontier estimation. In this article, we demonstrate that partial frontiers are not q…
Non-crossing convex quantile regression
Sheng Dai, Timo Kuosmanen, Xun Zhou
Quantile crossing is a common phenomenon in shape constrained nonparametric quantile regression. A recent study by Wang et al. (2014) has proposed to address this problem by imposi…