de los Campos, Gustavos; Foltz, Jeremy; Chavas, Jean-Paul; … - Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, … - 2010
This article proposes a semi-parametric stochastic frontier model (SPSF) in which components of the technology and of technical efficiency are represented using semi-parametric methods and estimated in a Bayesian framework. The approach is illustrated in an application to US farm data. The...