Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier Models
随机生产前沿模型的半参数估计
This paper extends the linear stochastic frontier model proposed by D. J. Aigner, C. A. K. Lovell, and P. Schmidt (1977) to a semiparametric frontier model in which the functional form of the production frontier is unspecified and the distributions of the composite error terms are of known form. Pseudo-likelihood estimators of the parameters characterizing the two error terms of the model are constructed based on kernel estimation of the conditional mean function. The Monte…