Estimating semi-parametric output distance functions with neural-based reduced form equations using LIML

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 697-704

  Vouldis, Angelos T ^a,b   Michaelides, Panayotis G ^c,d   Tsionas, Efthymios G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Financial Stability Department   (Greece)

^c Section of Mechanics   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

ANN; LIML; Output distance function; Technical efficiency; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649339427     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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