Flexible Functional Forms and Global Curvature Conditions
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Econometrica
- Vol. 55 (1), 43-68
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1911156
Abstract
Empirically estimated flexible functional forms frequently fail to satisfy the appropriate theoretical curvature conditions. Lau and Gallant and Golub have work...This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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