README.md

In Thdegraaff/SpatFrontier: Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models

Estimation of spatial stochastic frontier models

This R-package (under development), paper, and presentation are about stochastic spatial frontier (ssf) models. There are already a couple of papers about this topic, but I am not yet very convinced by them. Instead this paper and code provides a different approach to estimating a stochastic frontier model with spatially autocorrelated errors.

History

This paper has a long history. The original idea originated from Raymond J.G.M. Florax about already 10 years ago. I started working on this 8 years ago then let it rest for a while and now finally decided to give it a proper go.

Contents of the repository

1. An R package (still under development)
2. A paper containing
   • other literature,
   • methodology,
   • simulation,
   • and a empirical application on European regional production functions.
3. Presentation I gave on this in Marburg (2014) and the presentation to be presented in Dijon (2018)

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