Estimating fixed-effect panel stochastic frontier models by model transformation

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 286-296

  Wang, Hung Jen ^a,b   Ho, Chia Wen ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Panel data; Stochastic frontier models

Indexed keywords

FIXED EFFECTS; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; NON-LINEARITY; PANEL DATA; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS; TIME INVARIANTS;

ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 77953698209     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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