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Re: st: Stochastic Frontier
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Federico Belotti <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Stochastic Frontier
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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:03:25 +0200
The results of your exercise may be driven from a bunch of things.
How many banks are there in your dataset? Do their cost, output and input prices show cross-sectional variation?
Could you be more specific about your model?
Which distribution for the inefficiency term? What about heterogeneity/heteroscedasticity of the latter?
Federico
On Apr 10, 2013, at 2:17 PM, wdawd awdadw wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to perform a stochastic frontier analysis on a cross-sectional data of sample of banks in one country to try to estimate banks' cost-efficiency using frontier stata function.
>
> I am using a translog function of total costs as a dependent value with 2 outputs and 2 input prices as regressors.
>
> My problem is that the results of the exercise (after I predict inefficiency estimates) are questionable with the estimates not materially differing from one another (hundreths) all of them rougly equal to 10. (10,345 10,352 10,356, etc.) which is quite strange.
>
> Are there any suggesitons on what's the reason behind this?
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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