Functional Forms of Stochastic Frontier Production Functions and Models for Technical Inefficiency Effects: A Comparative Study for Wheat Farmers in Pakistan

George Battese and Sumiter Broca

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1997, vol. 8, issue 4, 395-414

Abstract: This paper considers translog and Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontiers in which the technical inefficiency effects are defined by three different models. The models involved are the time-varying inefficiency model, proposed by Battese and Coelli (1992), the inefficiency effects model for panel data, proposed by Battese and Coelli (1995), and the non-neutral frontier model, proposed by Huang and Liu (1994). Technical change is also accounted for in the frontier models. Predicted technical efficiencies of the wheat farmers and estimates of the elasticities of wheat production with respect to the different inputs and the returns-to-scale parameter are compared under the different model specifications. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

Keywords: Stochastic frontiers; production functions; technical efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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