The Quantile Regression Approach to Efficiency Measurement: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations
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- Chunping Liu & Audrey Laporte & Brian S. Ferguson, 2008. "The quantile regression approach to efficiency measurement: insights from Monte Carlo simulations," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(9), pages 1073-1087, September.
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Technical efficiency; data envelopment analysis; stochastic frontier estimation; quantile regression.;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2007-10-27 (Econometrics)
- NEP-EFF-2007-10-27 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HEA-2007-10-27 (Health Economics)
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