Ebook: Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics: A Festschrift for Leopold Simar

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.

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Leopold Simar became Professor of Statistics at the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1992, after moving from the Faculte des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Politiques (FSESP) at Facultes 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, Leopold 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.

This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Leopold 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 Leopold Simar has contributed much to over the past two decades, as well as related issues such as semiparametric regression and models for censored data.

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Leopold Simar became Professor of Statistics at the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1992, after moving from the Faculte des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Politiques (FSESP) at Facultes 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, Leopold 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.

This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Leopold 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 Leopold Simar has contributed much to over the past two decades, as well as related issues such as semiparametric regression and models for censored data.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Nadaraya’s Estimates for Large Quantiles and Free Disposal Support Curves....Pages 1-22
Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China....Pages 23-44
Nonparametric Frontier Estimation from Noisy Data....Pages 45-64
Estimating Frontier Cost Models Using Extremiles....Pages 65-81
Panel Data, Factor Models, and the Solow Residual....Pages 83-114
Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-Parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators....Pages 115-150
Explaining Efficiency in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments in Statistical Inference....Pages 151-175
Estimation of a General Parametric Location in Censored Regression....Pages 177-187
On Convex Boundary Estimation....Pages 189-200
The Skewness Issue in Stochastic Frontiers Models: Fact or Fiction?....Pages 201-227
Optimal Smoothing for a Computationally and Statistically Efficient Single Index Estimator....Pages 229-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-265

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Leopold Simar became Professor of Statistics at the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1992, after moving from the Faculte des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Politiques (FSESP) at Facultes 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, Leopold 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.

This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Leopold 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 Leopold Simar has contributed much to over the past two decades, as well as related issues such as semiparametric regression and models for censored data.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Nadaraya’s Estimates for Large Quantiles and Free Disposal Support Curves....Pages 1-22
Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China....Pages 23-44
Nonparametric Frontier Estimation from Noisy Data....Pages 45-64
Estimating Frontier Cost Models Using Extremiles....Pages 65-81
Panel Data, Factor Models, and the Solow Residual....Pages 83-114
Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-Parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators....Pages 115-150
Explaining Efficiency in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments in Statistical Inference....Pages 151-175
Estimation of a General Parametric Location in Censored Regression....Pages 177-187
On Convex Boundary Estimation....Pages 189-200
The Skewness Issue in Stochastic Frontiers Models: Fact or Fiction?....Pages 201-227
Optimal Smoothing for a Computationally and Statistically Efficient Single Index Estimator....Pages 229-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-265
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