Stochastic frontier analysis using Stata

Stata Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 719-758

  Belotti, Federico ^a   Daidone, Silvio ^b   Ilardi, Giuseppe ^c   Atella, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost frontier; Cross sectional; Panel data; Production frontier; Sfcross; Sfpanel; St0315; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890905105     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1301300404     Document Type: Article

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