Technological inefficiency and the skewness of the error component in stochastic frontier analysis

Economics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 101-107

  Carree, Martin A ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Cost frontier; Production frontier; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036721876     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00119-2     Document Type: Article

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