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A practitioner's guide to stochastic frontier analysis using STATA

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2015Description: xiv, 359 pISBN:
  • 9781107609464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.50285555 K8P7
Summary: Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata provides practitioners in academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using the stochastic frontier approach. The authors explain in detail how to estimate production, cost, and profit efficiency and introduce the basic theory of each model in an accessible way, using empirical examples that demonstrate the interpretation and application of models. This book also provides computer code, allowing users to apply the models in their own work, and incorporates the most recent stochastic frontier models developed in academic literature. Such recent developments include models of heteroscedasticity and exogenous determinants of inefficiency, scaling models, panel models with time-varying inefficiency, growth models, and panel models that separate firm effects and persistent and transient inefficiency. Immensely helpful to applied researchers, this book bridges the chasm between theory and practice, expanding the range of applications in which production frontier analysis may be implemented. • Provides stand-alone reference material for the reader to gain the practical understanding of estimating production, profit and cost efficiency • Includes a theoretical explanation of the stochastic frontier model interwoven with worked examples of applying the theory to real data • Provides tools to apply models to real data by creating a series of programs written for use in Stata (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/economics/econometrics-statistics-and-mathematical-economics/practitioners-guide-stochastic-frontier-analysis-using-stata)
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Table of Contents:

PART I GENERAL INFORMATION

01. Introduction
02. Production, distance, cost, and profit functions

PART II SINGLE EQUATION APPROACH: PRODUCTION, COST AND PROFIT

03. Production frontier models
04. Cost frontier models
05. Profit frontier models

PART III SYSTEM MODELS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA

06. Cost system models
07. Profit system models

PART IV THE PRIMAL APPROACH

08. Primal cost models
09. Profit primal models

PART V SINGLE EQUATION APPROACH WITH PANEL DATA

10. Panel models
11. Productivity and profitability

PART IV LOOKING AHEAD

12. Looking ahead

Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata provides practitioners in academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using the stochastic frontier approach. The authors explain in detail how to estimate production, cost, and profit efficiency and introduce the basic theory of each model in an accessible way, using empirical examples that demonstrate the interpretation and application of models. This book also provides computer code, allowing users to apply the models in their own work, and incorporates the most recent stochastic frontier models developed in academic literature. Such recent developments include models of heteroscedasticity and exogenous determinants of inefficiency, scaling models, panel models with time-varying inefficiency, growth models, and panel models that separate firm effects and persistent and transient inefficiency. Immensely helpful to applied researchers, this book bridges the chasm between theory and practice, expanding the range of applications in which production frontier analysis may be implemented.

• Provides stand-alone reference material for the reader to gain the practical understanding of estimating production, profit and cost efficiency
• Includes a theoretical explanation of the stochastic frontier model interwoven with worked examples of applying the theory to real data
• Provides tools to apply models to real data by creating a series of programs written for use in Stata


(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/economics/econometrics-statistics-and-mathematical-economics/practitioners-guide-stochastic-frontier-analysis-using-stata)

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