Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-253

  Kumbhakar, Subal C ^a   Sun, Kai ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental variable; Inefficiency; Stochastic frontier model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878259897     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.041     Document Type: Article

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