The joint measurement of technical and allocative inefficiencies: An application of bayesian inference in nonlinear random-effects models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 471, 2005, Pages 736-747

  Kumbhakar, Subal C ^a   Tsionas, Efthymios G ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allocative distortions; Commercial banks; Markov chain Monte Carlo technique; Technical efficiency; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644458259     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000150     Document Type: Review

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