DEPRINS, Dominique; SIMAR, Léopold - In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (1989) 14, pp. 117-143
The aim of the paper is to present a statistical methodology for the estimation of a deterministic production function and of the derived technical efficiencies. The originality of the method lies in that it allows the introduction of exogeneous factors explaining a part of the inefficiency....