Measuring technical efficiency in the stochastic varying coefficient frontier model

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-396

  Karagiannis, Giannis ^a   Tzouvelekas, Vangelis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nonneutral frontier models; Olive farms; Stochastic varying coefficient frontier model; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 67650796922     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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