This paper assesses deprivation in India employing a measure proposed by Sitaramam and using consumption data at the household level. As cereals constitute a staple food and form a major portion of expenditure on food, the deprivation measure considered here is deprivation in cereal consumption....

Econometrics deals with joint and conditional probability density functions and the mean value of the latter, the regression equation. When these densities take nonparametric form we get rich results. In this paper we retrace the work we did in mid seventies and recast them in today's...

From an empirical perspective, this paper critically examines the concepts of returns to scale (RTS) and economies of scale (EOS), and argues that the concept of EOS is more relevant and broader enough to exhibit proper scale economies behavior of firms. Two approaches, i.e., production function...

Lohnzurückhaltung bei fixen und flexiblen Wechselkursen Anhand des Modells von R. Dornbusch (1983) wird untersucht, wie sich verteilungsneutrale, einkommenspolitische Maßnahmen (das sind gleichzeitige Verringerungen von Lohn- und Preissteigerungen im selben Ausmaß) kurz- und mittelfristig auf...