Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of General Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

DOI10.2307/1914137zbMATH Open0412.90010OpenAlexW2237902232MaRDI QIDQ4199797FDOQ4199797

Authors: Finn R. Førsund, Lennart Hjalmarsson 

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1914137

zbMATH Keywords

econometricstechnical progresscase studyfrontier production functionsfarm managementmilk managementdata from the Swedish economyestimation of economic changeSalter's measures of bias and technical advance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Production models (90B30)

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• A survey of frontier production functions and of their relationship to efficiency measurement
• A stationary point for the stochastic frontier likelihood
• On the estimation of deterministic and stochastic frontier production functions. A comparison

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