Firm Size Distribution, Production Efficiency, and Returns to Scale: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
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Keywords
Firm size distribution; Missing middle; Productivity; Efficiency; Stochastic frontier;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2017-04-23 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2017-04-23 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-SBM-2017-04-23 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-SEA-2017-04-23 (South East Asia)
- NEP-TRA-2017-04-23 (Transition Economics)
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