st: Translog production function and panel data

[Anta Ndoye FAYE <anta@unistra.fr>]

Dear all,

I am relatively new to Stata and would like to know how to estimate  
the parameters of a translog production function with Stata. I am not  
interested in the estimation of the efficiency as suggested by the  
command xtfrontier but rather in the estimation of the elasticities of  
output with respect to my three inputs : capital, labor and materials  
and also the estimation of a price-cost markup when there is imperfect  
competition. Therefore i would like to know how to derive  a function  
analytically with Stata 11 to obtain elasticities and then use those  
very same elasticities in the estimation  non linear parameters.  I  
must precise that my data is an unbalanced panel data of 30 years.  
Hence i want to use a Gmm procedure for the estimation. Any  
suggestions or comments are welcomed
Best regards,

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Anta Ndoye FAYE
Phd Student
Field : Microeconometrics
Université de Strasbourg(BETA)/ Universitat Konstanz
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