On the estimation of deterministic and stochastic frontier production functions. A comparison

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(80)90046-9zbMath0436.62098MaRDI QIDQ1140961

Finn R. Førsund, Lennart Hjalmarsson, Wim Meeusen, Julien van den Broeck

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(80)90046-9

zbMATH Keywords

comparison; estimation; deterministic frontiers; composed error structure; stochastic frontier production functions; structural efficiency measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

91B84: Economic time series analysis

91B38: Production theory, theory of the firm

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