Systematic Departures from the Frontier: A Framework for the Analysis of Firm Inefficiency

DOI10.2307/2527115zbMath0729.90515OpenAlexW2047984942MaRDI QIDQ3354510

David Reifschneider, Rodney E. Stevenson

Publication date: 1991

Published in: International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2527115

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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