The methods presented in this paper provide an improved technique for fitting a continuous function to discontinuous step functions so often evolving from empirical studies such as estimation of ...

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The economic laws of demand and supply determine the markets for products and their equilibrium prices. However, economic forces can cause shifts in the demand and supply curves for a product and ...