Three Essays on Estimation and Testing of Nonparametric Models
In this dissertation, I focus on the development and application of nonparametric methods in econometrics. First, a constrained nonparametric regression method is developed to estimate a function and its derivatives subject to shape restrictions implied by economic theory. The constrained estimators...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11768 |