This study develops a new use of data envelopment analysis for estimating a stochastic frontier cost function that is assumed to have two different error components ...
Productivity and efficiency analysis have gained substantial attention in many industries over the last two decades, and stochastic frontier analysis has been one of the most popular analytical ...
There are two types of local industrial agglomeration of economic activity. One is the clustering of like-kind businesses—small and medium-sized companies, plants, and other types of establishments ...