Efficiency Measure from Dynamic Stochastic Production Frontier: Application to Tunisian Textile, Clothing, and Leather Industries

Econometric Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-111

  Ben Ayed Mouelhi, Rim ^a   Goaïed, Mohamed ^b  

^a ISCAE   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data; Generalized method of moments; Liberalisation; Stochastic production frontiers; Textile industry; Time invariant technical inefficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144290065     PISSN: 07474938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/ETC-120017976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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