Parametric approximations of nonparametric frontiers

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.012zbMath1334.62213MaRDI QIDQ261885

Léopold Simar, Jean-Pierre Florens

Publication date: 24 March 2016

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.012

zbMATH Keywords

frontier; production function; nonparametric estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

62F10: Point estimation

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