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Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Stochastic Frontier Analysis is a frontier regression model, introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt in 1977, that estimates a production, cost, or profit function while separating each unit's technical inefficiency from ordinary statistical noise. It splits the error term into a symmetric random component and a one-sided inefficiency component, producing firm- or country-level efficiency scores.

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Stochastic Frontier Production Function Analysis
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  • Aigner, D., Lovell, C.A.K. & Schmidt, P. (1977). Formulation and Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models. Journal of Econometrics, 6(1), 21–37. · DOI 10.1016/0304-4076(77)90052-5
  • Battese, G.E. & Coelli, T.J. (1995). A Model for Technical Inefficiency Effects in a Stochastic Frontier Production Function for Panel Data. Empirical Economics, 20(2), 325–332. · DOI 10.1007/BF01205442
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