RE: st: translog cost function

["Gauri Khanna" <gwkhanna@hotmail.com>]

Alberto,

You might want to visit TIm Coelli's website to get some tips although he 
uses his own program rather than Stata. Stata can estimate both production 
and cost functions - look up frontier (or xtfrontier for panel data) in the 
STATA reference manual.

Further, look at work done by Sunil Kumbhakar as well.

Stata can only estimate for three types of error distribution-half normal, 
truncated normal and exponential so I don't know what you are planning to 
use.

Don't have the reference of Atkinson so can't see the equations per se, but 
I would be most happy to have it as I too am toying with the idea of a cost 
function !!

BTW what are you migrating from ?

Regards,

(Ms) Gauri

> From: "Giovanni Vecchi" <giovanni.vecchi@uniroma2.it>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: translog cost function
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:34:13 +0200
>
> I'm posting this on behalf of a colleague who's having problems to get the
> message through.
>
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I am trying to estimate a translog cost function with shadow prices using
> the approach of Atkinson and Halvorsen (1984). �Parametric efficiency 
> tests,
> economies of scale and input demand in US electric power generation�.
> International Economic Review, 25(3). My focus is on equations (10) to 
> (13).
> I have a panel dataset (annual data, 20 firms, 13 years).
>
> I am new to Stata (actually I'm still considering migrating to Stata) and
> would appreciate any comments/references you may have to get me started.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alberto Iozzi
>
>
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