We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent years, namely 1997-2007. Our dataset is a mixed panel/multi-year cross-sections of dwellings/households in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States as of 2008. To our...

A new method is introduced for panel-data models. Asymptotic robustness is used for a multivariate model with latent variables for a family of estimators. It is shown numerically that in comparison to standard methods we obtain: 1) better predictions in out-of-sample occasions; 2) smaller...

The article aims at providing a suitable measure of total factor productivity (TFP) levels within the conditional convergence framework by introducing unobserved heterogeneity in terms of a ‘‘mapping model’’. Our goal is twofold. First, we develop a generalized maximum...