A simpli"ed approach to computing e$ciency bounds in semiparametric models
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چکیده
Using some standard Hilbert space theory a simpli"ed approach to computing e$ciency bounds in semiparametric models is presented. We use some interesting examples to illustrate this approach and also obtain some results which seem to be new to the literature. 2001 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classixcation: C14
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