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Applied Economics Letters Volume 2, 1995 - Issue 4
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Estimating efficiency by cost frontiers: a comparison of parametric and nonparametric methods

Jati K. Sengupta Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
Pages 86-90 | Received 05 Jan 1995, Published online: 02 Nov 2006
 
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Abstract

Two methods of estimating efficiency by cost frontiers are analysed here by way of generalizing Farrell's convex hull method and illustrated by an empirical application.

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