Diewert, Walter E; Wales, Terence J - In: Econometrica 55 (1987) 1, pp. 43-68
Two methods are developed for imposing curvature conditions globally in the estimation of cost functions. The first adopts a procedure due to Lau, for imposing the conditions locally, to a generalization of a functional form proposed by McFadden. With this functional form, imposing the...