Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for frontier analysis

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Simar, Léopold ^a,b   Zelenyuk, Valentin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Toulouse School of Economics   (France)

^c Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^d Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Local maximum likelihood; Nonparametric frontier; Stochastic DEA; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960070280     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-010-0170-6     Document Type: Article

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