Bayesian efficiency analysis through individual effects: Hospital cost frontiers

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(95)01783-6zbMath0877.62101OpenAlexW2134616098MaRDI QIDQ1362027

Gary Koop, Mark F. J. Steel, Jacek Osiewalski

Publication date: 15 December 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(95)01783-6

zbMATH Keywords

fixed effectsrandom effectspanel dataGibbs samplerstochastic frontier modelshospital cost function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Bayesian inference (62F15) Public goods (91B18)

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