Inference from concave stochastic frontiers and the covariance of firm efficiency measures across firms

Energy Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 585-601

  Dashti, Imad ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Efficiency measures; Stochastic frontiers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

FIRM EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MODELING; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0142027596     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-9883(03)00049-5     Document Type: Article

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