Measurement of technology heterogeneity by metafronter

2008 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering 15th Annual Conference Proceedings, ICMSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 182-187

  Ge, Hong ^a   Li, Shan Shan ^a   Huang, Yi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas production function; Metafrontier production function; Technology gap; Varying coefficients regression model

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION; FRONTIER PRODUCTIONS; METAFRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION; OUTPUT DATUMS; PANEL DATUMS; PIECE WISES; PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGY GAP; VARYING COEFFICIENTS REGRESSION MODEL;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 57649215436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMSE.2008.4668913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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