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 distribution; skewness; production frontier; cost frontier

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B38: Production theory, theory of the firm

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