Unobserved heterogeneity in stochastic cost frontier models: An application to Swiss nursing homes

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2127-2141

  Farsi, Mehdi ^a,b   Filippini, Massimo ^a,b   Kuenzle, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 21644474588     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500293201     Document Type: Article

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