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creators_name: Florens, Jean-Pierre
creators_name: Simar, Léopold
creators_name: Van Keilegom, Ingrid
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creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics
title: Frontier Estimation in Nonparametric Location-Scale Models
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abstract: Conditional efficiency captures efficiency of firms facing heterogeneous environmental conditions. Traditional approaches estimate nonparametrically conditional distribution requiring smoothing techniques. We rather use a flexible nonparametric location-scale model to eliminate the dependence of inputs/outputs on these factors. These “pre-whitened” inputs/outputs define the optimal frontier function and a “pure” measure of efficiency more reliable to produce rankings, since the influence of external factors has been eliminated. Both full and order-mm frontiers are used. The asymptotic properties are established. We can also derive the frontiers in the original units with their asymptotic properties. The approach is illustrated with some simulated and real data.
date: 2014-01
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2013.06.005
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/28222
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keywords: Nonparametric frontiers
keywords: Efficiency analysis
keywords: Robust estimation of frontiers
keywords: Conditional efficiency
language: en
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doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2013.06.005
subjectsJEL: JEL_C13
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view_date_year: 2014
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publication: Journal of Econometrics
volume: vol. 178
number: n° 3
pagerange: 456-470
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citation:   Florens, Jean-Pierre <https://www.idref.fr/02883755X>, Simar, Léopold <https://www.idref.fr/034446303> and Van Keilegom, Ingrid <https://www.idref.fr/170312534>  (2014) Frontier Estimation in Nonparametric Location-Scale Models.    Journal of Econometrics, vol. 178 (n° 3).  pp. 456-470.