Fan, Yanqin; Li, Qi; Weersink, Alfons - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 14 (1996) 4, pp. 460-68
This paper extends the linear stochastic frontier model proposed by D. J. Aigner, C. A. K. Lovell, and P. Schmidt (1977) to a semiparametric frontier model in which the functional form of the production frontier is unspecified and the distributions of the composite error terms are of known form....