Frontier production functions, technical efficiency and panel data: With application to paddy farmers in India

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Efficiency Estimation from Cobb-Douglas Production Functions with Composed Error

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On the estimation of technical inefficiency in the stochastic frontier production function model

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Prediction of firm-level technical efficiencies with a generalized frontier production function and panel data

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