Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.06.015zbMath1419.62523OpenAlexW1859794473MaRDI QIDQ2635052

Léopold Simar, Anne Vanhems, Ingrid Van Keilegom

Publication date: 11 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://cdn.uclouvain.be/public/Exports%20reddot/stat/documents/DP2013_54_ALL.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

endogeneityunobserved heterogeneityconditional efficiencynonparametric frontiersrobust estimation of frontiers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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