On the use of panel data in stochastic frontier models with improper priors

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-193

  Fernández, Carmen ^a   Osiewalski, Jacek ^b   Steel, Mark F J ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Composed error; Existence of posterior; Identification; Posterior moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000194769     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(97)88050-5     Document Type: Article

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