Spatial stochastic frontier models: Accounting for unobserved local determinants of inefficiency

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In this paper, we analyze the productivity of farms across n = 370 municipalities located in the Center-West region of Brazil. We propose a stochastic frontier model with a latent spatial structure to account for possible unknown geographical variation of the outputs. This spatial component is included in the one-sided disturbance term. We explore two different distributions for this term, the exponential and the truncated normal. We use the Bayesian paradigm to fit the proposed models. We also compare between an independent normal prior and a conditional autoregressive prior for these spatial effects. The inference procedure takes explicit account of the uncertainty when considering these spatial effects. As the resultant posterior distribution does not have a closed form, we make use of stochastic simulation techniques to obtain samples from it. Two different model comparison criteria provide support for the importance of including these latent spatial effects, even after considering covariates at the municipal level.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 172

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Econometrics ; Bayesian Analysis: General

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schmidt, Alexandra Mello ; Moreira, Ajax Reynaldo Bello ; da Fonseca, Thaís C. O. ; Helfand, Steven M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea)
• (wo): Brasília
• (wann): 2015

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/220261