Most of the literature related to the measurement of economic efficiency has based its
analysis either on parametric or on non‐parametric frontier methods. The choice of …

A number of techniques have been developed that expand the range of options available to
researchers for estimating frontiers. This paper discusses recent developments in the …

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions.
We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and …

A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata provides practitioners in
academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

It is expected that in the near future the use of high-voltage dc (HVDC) transmission and
medium-voltage dc (MVDC) distribution technology will expand. This development is driven …

The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first edition. It
is designed to be a" first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and productivity …

This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit
frontiers, and for the estimation of the technical and economic efficiency with which …

We present results from an experiment that randomized the expansion of electric grid
infrastructure in rural Kenya. Electricity distribution is a canonical example of a natural …

Chapter 1 describes two broad paradigms for measuring economic efficiency, one based on
an essentially nonparametric, programming approach to analysis of observed outcomes …