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Consistent inference in fixed-effects stochastic frontier models
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The classical stochastic frontier panel data models provide no mechanism to disentangle individual time invariant unobserved heterogeneity from inefficiency. Greene (2005a, b) proposed the so-called true fixed-effects specification that distinguishes these two latent components. However, due to the incidental parameters problem, his maximum likelihood estimator may lead to biased variance estimates. We propose two alternative estimators that achieve consistency for n -> infinity with fixed T. Furthermore, we extend the Chen et al. (2014) results providing a feasible estimator when the inefficiency is heteroskedastic and follows a first-order autoregressive process. We investigate the behavior of the proposed estimators through Monte Carlo simulations showing good finite sample properties, especially in small samples. An application to hospitals' technical efficiency illustrates the usefulness of the new approach. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Stochastic frontiers
Fixed-effects
Panel data
Marginal simulated likelihood
Pairwise differencing
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