Heterogeneities in stochastic production frontier models with application to world health organization’s panel data.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sun, Gongshi., Wang, Yi.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48845

Though there exist various researches on how to separate heterogeneity and inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, due to the ambiguity in definitions, it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate the two entirely without strong distribution assumptions. This study will walk through existin...