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"