Florens, Jean-Pierre; Simar, Léopold; Van Keilegom, Ingrid - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P3, pp. 456-470
Conditional efficiency captures efficiency of firms facing heterogeneous environmental conditions. Traditional approaches estimate nonparametrically conditional distribution requiring smoothing techniques. We rather use a flexible nonparametric location-scale model to eliminate the dependence of...