Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62254 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2000,48
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
The importance of homogeneity as a restriction on functional forms has been well recognized in economic theory. Imposing additive separability is also quite popular since many economics models become easier to interpret and estimate when the explanatory variables are additively separable. In this paper we combine the two restrictions and propose a two step nonparametric procedure for estimating additive models whose unknown component functions may be homogeneous of known degree. In the first step we obtain preliminary estimates of the components by imposing homogeneity on local linear fits. In the second step these pilot estimates are marginally integrated to produce estimators of the additive components which possess optimal rates of convergence. We derive the asymptotic theory of these two step estimators and illustrate their use on data collected from livestock farms in Wisconsin.
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Working Paper

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