Stochastic Frontier Production Function and Efficiency Status of Poultry Layer Farms in Malaysia

Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Partially non-parametric and Stochastic Frontier Parametric Methods Case Study: Measuring Cost Efficiency in Wheat Production in Iran

Farmers’ Health Status, Agricultural Efficiency, and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). IFPRI's research, capacity strengthening, and comm...

Estimating Production Uncertainty in Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models

One of the main purposes of the frontier literature is to estimate inefficiency. Given this objective, it is unfortunate that the issue of estimating “firm-specific” inefficiency in cross sectional context has not received much attention. To estimate firm-specific (technical) inefficiency, the standard procedure is to use the mean of the inefficiency term conditional on the entire composed erro...

Formulation and Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models*

Previous studies of the so-called frontier production function have not utilized an adequate characterization of the disturbance term for such a model. In this paper we provide an appropriate specification, by defining the disturbance term as the sum of symmetric normal and (negative) half-normal random variables. Various aspects of maximum-likelihood estimation for the coefficients of a produc...

comparative analysis of stochastic frontier partially non-parametric and stochastic frontier parametric methods case study: measuring cost efficiency in wheat production in iran