On the choice of functional form in stochastic frontier modeling

Empirical Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-100

  Giannakas, Konstantinos ^a   Tran, Kien C ^b   Tzouvelekas, Vangelis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Functional specifications; Greek olive oil; Stochastic frontiers; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; MODELING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

GREECE;

EID: 0037258352     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810100120     Document Type: Article

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