Semiparametric Stochastic Frontier Estimation via Profile Likelihood

Econometric Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 413-451

  Martins Filho, Carlos ^a,b   Yao, Feng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric frontiers; Profile likelihood estimation; Stochastic frontier models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911967275     PISSN: 07474938     EISSN: 15324168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2013.806729     Document Type: Article

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