Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data: Semi-parametric frontier estimation subject to shape constraints

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-28

  Kuosmanen, Timo ^a,b   Kortelainen, Mika ^c  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Frontier estimation; Nonparametric least squares; Productive efficiency analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859763872     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-010-0201-3     Document Type: Article

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