under which globalization factors foster technology efficiency. In this paper, we extend the MSS model by combining panel … threshold regression technique advanced by Hansen (1999). This threshold stochastic frontier panel data model enables us to …

This paper proposes a stochastic frontier panel data model in which unit-specific inefficiencies are spatially … inefficiency is disentangled from time invariant unobserved heterogeneity in a panel data model à la Greene (2005); iii) systematic … that the estimation approach is consistent, showing good finite sample properties especially in small samples …

This paper provides estimation method to measure technical efficiency of production units and the speed of adjustment … adjustment of inputs. Using a panel dataset on private manufacturing establishments in Egypt, I find that the speed of adjustment …