Technological inefficiency and the skewness of the error component in stochastic frontier analysis

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00119-2zbMath1015.91034MaRDI QIDQ1614824

Martin A. Carree

Publication date: 9 September 2002

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionskewnessproduction frontiercost frontier

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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