The specification of technical and allocative inefficiency in stochastic production and profit frontiers

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(87)90016-9zbMath0611.90014MaRDI QIDQ1087457

Subal C. Kumbhakar

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(87)90016-9

zbMATH Keywords

Cobb-Douglas production function; estimation of technical and allocative inefficiency; frontier production models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

91B38: Production theory, theory of the firm

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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