Parman, Bryon J.; Featherstone, Allen M. - In: Journal of applied economics 22 (2019) 1, pp. 60-85
This article examines the empirical performance of alternative frontier estimators' ability to replicate a known … restricting errors to be above the cost frontier, the stochastic frontier method, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The data … two output firms. The DEA estimator was most robust in estimating the "true" cost frontier and associated economic …