Estimation Of Moments And Production Decisions Under Uncertainty

Elie Appelbaum and Aman Ullah

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997, vol. 79, issue 4, 631-637

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine production decisions under output price uncertainty. Using a nonparametric estimation technique to estimate the first four moments of the unknown price distribution and applying duality, we provide a simple empirical framework for the analysis of supply and demand decisions under price uncertainty. The model is used to examine the importance of higher moments in the firm's production decisions and to investigate underlying attitudes toward risk. © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 1997
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