Publications

Estimating Production Functions using Costs when Outputs are Restricted

with S. Zhao, S.C. Kumbhakar and D.H. Bernstein, Econometric Reviews, 2025, 44(4): 433–461

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A System Approach to Structural Identification of Production Functions with Multi-Dimensional Productivity

with S. Zhao and J. Zhang, Advances in Econometrics, 2024, 46: 211–263

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On the Estimation of Cross-Firm Productivity Spillovers with an Application to FDI

with S. Zhao, Review of Economics & Statistics, 2023, 105(5): 1207–1223Previously circulated as “Cross-Firm Productivity Spillovers in the Presence of Foreign Investments”

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Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters

with J. Zhang, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2023, 60: 1–19

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Accounting for Cross-Location Technological Heterogeneity in the Measurement of Operations Efficiency

with J. Zhang, S. Zhao and S.C. Kumbhakar, Journal of Operations Management, 2022, 68(2): 153–184Previously circulated as “Locational Heterogeneity in Production”

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Proxy Variable Estimation of Multi-Product Production Functions

with G. Lien, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103(5): 1878–1902Previously circulated as “Structural Estimation of Multi-Product Production Functions and Productivity”

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Estimation of Firm-Level Productivity in the Presence of Exports: Evidence from China's Manufacturing

with S. Zhao and S.C. Kumbhakar, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35(4): 457–480

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Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture

with J. Zhang, R. Miao and P. Ghosh, Journal of Regional Science, 2026, 66(1): 46–88

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Distributional Effects of the Increasing Heat Incidence on Labor Productivity

with J. Zhang and R. Miao, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 2024, 125: 102998

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Distributional & Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture

with R. Miao and J. Zhang, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 2020, 104: 102386

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Smoothed LSDV Estimation of Functional-Coefficient Panel Data Models with Two-Way Fixed Effects

with S. Halder, Economics Letters, 2020, 192: 109239

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(Under)Mining Local Residential Property Values: A Semiparametric Spatial Quantile Autoregression

with Y. Sun and D. Hite, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(1): 82–109Previously circulated as “The Value-Undermining Effects of Rock Mining on Nearby Residential Property”

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Estimation and Inference in Functional-Coefficient Spatial Autoregressive Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

with Y. Sun, Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203(2): 359–378

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Heterogeneous Credit Union Production Technologies with Endogenous Switching and Correlated Effects

with D.A. Restrepo-Tobon and S.C. Kumbhakar, Econometric Reviews, 2018, 37(10): 1095–1119Previously circulated as “Are All U.S. Credit Unions Alike? A Generalized Model of Heterogeneous Technologies with Endogenous Switching and Correlated Effects”

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Semiparametric Estimation and Testing of Smooth Coefficient Spatial Autoregressive Models

with Y. Sun, Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199(1): 12–34

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Varying Coefficient Panel Data Model in the Presence of Endogenous Selectivity and Fixed Effects

with S.C. Kumbhakar and Y. Sun, Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 190(2): 233–251

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A Generalized Panel Data Switching Regression Model

with S.C. Kumbhakar, Economics Letters, 2014, 124(3): 353–357

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Off-Balance Sheet Activities and Scope Economies in U.S. Banking

with J. Zhang, Journal of Banking & Finance, 2022, 141: 106534

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Product and Geographic Market Diversification in U.S. Banking

with J. Zhang and V. Hartarska, Finance Research Letters, 2021, 42: 101881

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Economies of Diversification in Microfinance: Evidence from Quantile Estimation on Panel Data

with V. Hartarska and R. Mersland, Finance Research Letters, 2020, 34: 101246

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Endogenous Scope Economies in Microfinance Institutions

with V. Hartarska, Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018, 93: 162–182

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Economies of Diversification in the U.S. Credit Union Sector

with S. Zhao and S.C. Kumbhakar, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32(7): 1329–1347

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Estimation of Banking Technology under Credit Uncertainty

with D.A. Restrepo-Tobon and S.C. Kumbhakar, Empirical Economics, 2015, 49(1): 185–211

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Endogenous Dynamic Efficiency in the Intertemporal Optimization Models of Firm Behavior

with E.G. Tsionas and S.C. Kumbhakar, European Journal of Operational Research, 2020, 284(1): 313–324

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An Internally Consistent Approach to the Estimation of Market Power and Cost Efficiency with an Application to U.S. Banking

with E.G. Tsionas and S.C. Kumbhakar, European Journal of Operational Research, 2018, 270(2): 747–760

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A Hedonic Output Index based Approach to Modeling Polluting Technologies

with R. Bokusheva and S.C. Kumbhakar, Empirical Economics, 2018, 54(1): 287–308

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A Cost System Approach to the Stochastic Directional Technology Distance Function with Undesirable Outputs: The Case of U.S. Banks in 2001–2010

with S.C. Kumbhakar and E.G. Tsionas, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(7): 1407–1429

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Estimation of Input Distance Functions: A System Approach

with E.G. Tsionas and S.C. Kumbhakar, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, 97(5): 1478–1493

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Bayesian Approach to Disentangling Technical and Environmental Productivity

with S.C. Kumbhakar and E.G. Tsionas, Econometrics, 2015, 3(2): 443–465

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Crop Insurance Premium Subsidy and Irrigation Water Withdrawals in the Western United States

with P. Ghosh and R. Miao, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, 2023, 48: 968–992

Nonparametric Estimates of the Clean and Dirty Energy Substitutability

with K. Sun and S.C. Kumbhakar, Economics Letters, 2018, 168: 118–122

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Dynamic Responses to Oil Price Shocks: Conditional vs. Unconditional (A)symmetry

Economics Letters, 2016, 139: 31–35

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How People Think about Distributing Aid

with N. Hassoun and N. Lubchenco, Philosophical Psychology, 2016, 29(7): 1029–1044

A Second Look at Sticky Wholesale Gasoline Prices

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2011, 36(3): 227–235