A Production Model with Firm-Specific Temporal Variation in Technical Inefficiency: With Application to Spanish Dairy Farms

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-158

  Cuesta, Rafael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dairy farms; Panel data; Stochastic production frontiers; Time varying technical inefficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380315     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017297831646     Document Type: Article

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