This article studies the estimation of production frontiers and efficiency scores when the commodity of interest is an economic bad with a discrete distribution. Existing parametric econometric techniques (stochastic frontier methods) assume that output is a continuous random variable but, if...

This chapter revises the literature on discrete output stochastic frontier models. We suggest an encompassing framework within which to develop new models of production frontier when the output variable is discrete-valued. We discuss specific applications of the framework. In particular, the...