A Gamma-distributed stochastic frontier model
服从 Gamma 分布的随机前沿模型
We modify the stochastic frontier model of Aigner, Lovell, and Schmidt to allow the one-sided part of the disturbance to have a two-parameter Gamma distribution rather than the less flexible half-normal distribution. Maximum-likelihood estimation and the estimation of firm-specific inefficiency estimates require the evaluation of integrals which have no closed form and for which there are no polynomial approximations available. We consider two methods of computing these…