BARROS, CARLOS PESTANA; MANAGI, SHUNSUKE; YOSHIDA, YUICHIRO - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 56 (2011) 04, pp. 523-534
This paper evaluates the production activities of Japanese airports by using a finite mixture model that allows controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. In doing so, a stochastic frontier latent class model, which allows the existence of different technologies, is adopted to estimate production...