Artikel
Improved average estimation in seemingly unrelated regressions
In this paper, we propose an efficient weighted average estimator in Seemingly Unrelated Regressions. This average estimator shrinks a generalized least squares (GLS) estimator towards a restricted GLS estimator, where the restrictions represent possible parameter homogeneity specifications. The shrinkage weight is inversely proportional to a weighted quadratic loss function. The approximate bias and second moment matrix of the average estimator using the large-sample approximations are provided. We give the conditions under which the average estimator dominates the GLS estimator on the basis of their mean squared errors. We illustrate our estimator by applying it to a cost system for United States (U.S.) Commercial banks, over the period from 2000 to 2018. Our results indicate that on average most of the banks have been operating under increasing returns to scale. We find that over the recent years, scale economies are a plausible reason for the growth in average size of banks and the tendency toward increasing scale is likely to continue
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Econometrics ; ISSN: 2225-1146 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-22 ; Basel: MDPI
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Wirtschaft
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asymptotic approximations
GLS
Stein-type shrinkage estimator
SUR
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mehrabani, Ali
Ullah, Aman
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Veröffentlichung
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MDPI
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Basel
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.3390/econometrics8020015
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Mehrabani, Ali
- Ullah, Aman
- MDPI
Entstanden
- 2020