Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics

1. Front Matter

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2. Nadaraya’s Estimates for Large Quantiles and Free Disposal Support Curves

   • Abdelaati Daouia, Laurent Gardes, Stéphane Girard

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3. Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China

   • Alice Shiu, Valentin Zelenyuk

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4. Nonparametric Frontier Estimation from Noisy Data

   • Maik Schwarz, Sébastien Van Bellegem, Jean-Pierre Florens

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5. Estimating Frontier Cost Models Using Extremiles

   • Abdelaati Daouia, Irène Gijbels

   Pages 65-81

6. Panel Data, Factor Models, and the Solow Residual

   • Alois Kneip, Robin C. Sickles

   Pages 83-114

7. Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-Parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators

   • Paul W. Wilson

   Pages 115-150

8. Explaining Efficiency in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments in Statistical Inference

   • Luiza Bădin, Cinzia Daraio

   Pages 151-175

9. Estimation of a General Parametric Location in Censored Regression

   • Cédric Heuchenne, Ingrid Van Keilegom

   Pages 177-187

10. On Convex Boundary Estimation

    • Seok-Oh Jeong, Byeong U. Park

    Pages 189-200

11. The Skewness Issue in Stochastic Frontiers Models: Fact or Fiction?

    • Pavlos Almanidis, Robin C. Sickles

    Pages 201-227

12. Optimal Smoothing for a Computationally and Statistically Efficient Single Index Estimator

    • Yingcun Xia, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Oliver Linton

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13. Back Matter

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This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Léopold Simar’s far-reaching scientific impact on Statistics and Econometrics throughout his career. The papers contained herein were presented at a conference in
Louvain-la-Neuve in May 2009 in honor of his retirement.  The contributions cover a broad variety of issues surrounding frontier
estimation, which Léopold Simar has contributed much to over the past two decades, as well as related issues such as semiparametric regression and models for censored data.

This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Léopold Simar’s far-reaching scientific impact on Statistics and Econometrics throughout his career. The papers contained herein were presented at a conference in
Louvain-la-Neuve in May 2009 in honor of his retirement.  The contributions cover a broad variety of issues surrounding frontier
estimation, which Léopold Simar has contributed much to over the past two decades, as well as related issues such as semiparametric regression and models for censored data.

• Econometrics
• Research Frontiers
• Statistics

• , Institut de statistique,, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  Ingrid Van Keilegom

• Dept. Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

  Paul W. Wilson

Léopold Simar became Professor of Statistics at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1992, after moving from the Faculté des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Politiques (FSESP) at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, where he had served as Professor of Statistics since 1974 and as Dean of the FSESP from 1978 to 1990. He founded the Institute of Statistics at the UCL in 1992, and chaired the Institute from its creation until 2004. During this period, the Institute became recognized as a leading center for research in mathematical statistics. Over his long and successful career, Léopold Simar has worked on a variety of topics in statistics, including count-data models, Bayesian estimation and inference, and frontier estimation. He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on frontier estimation; his work in this area has found application in a broad variety of fields, including efficiency studies in industry, air traffic control, the research output of universities, insurance companies, etc.

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