Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier Models Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This article extends the linear stochastic frontier model proposed by Aigner, Lovell, and Schmidt 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. Pseudolikelihood 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 Carlo results show that the proposed estimators perform well in finite samples. An empirical application is presented. Extensions to a partially linear frontier function and to more flexible one-sided error distributions than the half-normal are discussed. 1996 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

published proceedings

  • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

author list (cited authors)

  • Fan, Y., Li, Q. i., & Weersink, A.

citation count

  • 130

complete list of authors

  • Fan, Yanqin||Li, Qi||Weersink, Alfons

publication date

  • January 1996