Program
Wed 24 August
Location: Government Institute of Economic Research (VATT) Helsinki
12:00 – 12:45 Andrew Johnson ”Insights from machine learning for evaluating production function estimators on manufacturing survey data”
12:45 – 13:30 Abolfazl Keshvari “Shape restricted regression and a hedonic model of Finnish hotel room rates”
14:00 – 14:45 Xun Zhou ”Environmental productivity growth in consumer durables: Insights from cohorts of new passenger cars in Finland”
14:45 – 15:30 Timo Kuosmanen ”Modeling economies of scope in joint production: Convex regression of input distance functions”
18:00 Dinner: Restaurant Vltava
Thu 25 August
Location: Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki
10:00 – 12:00 Invited keynote lecture: Xiaofeng Dai "NMM-StoNED: A Bioinformatics Approach for Stochastic Semi-Parmetric Benchmarking"