Nonparametric stochastic frontiers: A local maximum likelihood approach

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-27

  Kumbhakar, Subal C ^a   Park, Byeong U ^b   Simar, Léopold ^c   Tsionas, Efthymios G ^d  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking; Local maximum likelihood; Nonparametric; Stochastic cost frontier

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BANKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA; DATA SETS; LOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846503930     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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