The StoNED age: The departure into a new era of efficiency analysis? A monte carlo comparison of StoNED and the "oldies" (SFA and DEA)

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 85-109

  Andor, Mark ^a   Hesse, Frederik ^b  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Monte carlo simulation; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA); Stochastic non smooth envelopment of data (StoNED)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892844793     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-013-0354-y     Document Type: Article

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