We show how economies of scale may be distinguished from technical progress and how both may be simultaneously identified in the empirical analysis of aggregate economic growth. Using the meta-production function framework and a cross-section of time-series macroeconomic data on inputs and...

Introduction / Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train -- 1. Response to cost prompts in stated preference valuation of environmental goods / Jim Burrows, Powell Dixon, and Hiu Man Chan -- 2. Fat tails and truncated bids in contingent valuation : an application to an endangered shorebird species /...