Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177665 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 17-097/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Parametric production frontier functions are frequently used in stochastic frontier models, but there do not seem to be any empirical test statistics for its plausibility. To bridge the gap in the literature, we develop two test statistics based on local smoothing and an empirical process, respectively. Residual-based wild bootstrap versions of these two test statistics are also suggested. The distributions of technical inefficiency and the noise term are not specified, which allows specification testing of the production frontier function even under heteroscedasticity. Simulation studies and a real data example are presented to examine the finite sample sizes and powers of the test statistics. The theory developed in this paper is useful for production mangers in their decisions on production.
Subjects: 
Production frontier function
Stochastic frontier model
Specification testing
Wild bootstrap
Smoothing process
Empirical process
Simulations
JEL: 
C0
C13
C14
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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