Estimation of cost efficiency with heteroscedasticity: An application to electricity utilities

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-335

  Kumbhakar, Subal C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost function; Error component model; Heteroscedasticity; Inefficiency; Panel data; Technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040999462     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2988470     Document Type: Article

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