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Accounting for unobservables in production models:management and inefficiency

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Antonio Álvarez () (University of Oviedo)
Carlos Arias () (University of León)
William Greene () (New York University)

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This paper explores the role of unobserved managerial ability in production and its relationship with technical efficiency. Previous analyses of managerial ability have been based on strong assumptions about its role in production or on the use of proxies. We avoid these limitations by introducing managerial ability as an unobserved random variable in a translog production function. The resulting empirical model can be estimated as a stochastic production frontier with random coefficients.

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Paper provided by Centro de Estudios Andaluces in its series Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces with number E2004/72.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Keywords: Managerial ability technical efficiency production frontier random coefficients model maximum simulated likelihood.

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C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
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  1. Aigner, Dennis & Lovell, C. A. Knox & Schmidt, Peter, 1977. "Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 21-37, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Antonio Alvarez & Carlos Arias, 2003. "Diseconomies of Size with Fixed Managerial Ability," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 85(1), pages 134-142, 02. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Schmidt, Peter & Sickles, Robin C, 1984. "Production Frontiers and Panel Data," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association, vol. 2(4), pages 367-74, October.
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