Heteroscedasticity and non-monotonic efficiency effects of a stochastic frontier model

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 241-253

  Wang, Hung Jen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heteroscedasticity; Non monotonic effects; Stochastic frontiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036407139     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020638827640     Document Type: Article

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