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This paper studies inter-firm heterogeneity in production. Unlike much of the existing research, which primarily addresses heterogeneous production through unobserved fixed effects, our approach also focuses on differences in factors'…
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Although system heterogeneity has been extensively studied in the past, there is yet to be a study on measuring the impact of heterogeneity on system performance. For this purpose, we propose a heterogeneity measure that can characterize…
We establish the theoretical framework for implementing the maximumn entropy on the mean (MEM) method for linear inverse problems in the setting of approximate (data-driven) priors. We prove a.s. convergence for empirical means and further…
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The purpose of this note is to show how the method of maximum entropy in the mean (MEM) may be used to improve parametric estimation when the measurements are corrupted by large level of noise. The method is developed in the context on a…