Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Nov, 2015, Volume 83, Issue 6

Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators

https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA13408
p. 2411-2451

Daniel A. Ackerberg, Kevin Caves, Garth Frazer

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions. We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). While there are some solid and intuitive identification ideas in these papers, we argue that the techniques can suffer from functional dependence problems. We suggest an alternative approach that is based on the ideas in these papers, but does not suffer from the functional dependence problems and produces consistent estimates under alternative data generating processes for which the original procedures do not.


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Supplement to "Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators"

This zip file contains GAUSS program code that runs the monte-carlos required to replicate the Tables found in the manuscript.