Frontier Production Functions

Handbook of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 75-153

  Greene, William H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocative inefficiency; Application; Frontier production functions; Production function; Stochastic frontier model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044956933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631216339.1999.00004.x     Document Type: Chapter

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