Modeling technical inefficiencies effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data

African Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1374-1382

  Baten, Md Azizul ^a   Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah ^a   Haque, Mohammad Anamul ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh tea industry; Efficiency; Stochastic frontier translog production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952228873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1991637X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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