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

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(80)90046-9zbMath0436.62098OpenAlexW1555200683MaRDI QIDQ1140961

Lennart Hjalmarsson, Wim Meeusen, Finn R. Førsund, 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

comparisonestimationdeterministic frontierscomposed error structurestochastic frontier production functionsstructural efficiency measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Economic time series analysis (91B84) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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