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Estimating a Stochastic Production Frontier when the Adjusted Error is Symmetric

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  • Li, Q., 1994. "Estimating a Stochastic Production Frontier when the Adjusted Error is Symmetric," Working Papers 1994-8, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance.
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    2. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances I," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 8, pages 331-370, Springer.
    3. Christopher F. Parmeter & Alan T. K. Wan & Xinyu Zhang, 2019. "Model averaging estimators for the stochastic frontier model," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 91-103, June.
    4. Carree, Martin A., 2002. "Technological inefficiency and the skewness of the error component in stochastic frontier analysis," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 77(1), pages 101-107, September.
    5. Henderson, Daniel J. & Parmeter, Christopher F., 2015. "A consistent bootstrap procedure for nonparametric symmetry tests," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 78-82.
    6. Zhao, Shirong & Parmeter, Christopher F., 2022. "The “wrong skewness” problem: Moment constrained maximum likelihood estimation of the stochastic frontier model," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
    7. Jradi, Samah & Parmeter, Christopher F. & Ruggiero, John, 2021. "Quantile estimation of stochastic frontiers with the normal-exponential specification," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(2), pages 475-483.

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