Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiencies in a Cost System: An Exact Maximum Likelihood Approach
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Keywords
Technical inefficiency; allocative inefficiency; the Greene problem; translog cost function;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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