Arbeitspapier

New insights into the stochastic ray production frontier

The stochastic ray production frontier was developed as an alternative to the traditional output distance function to model production processes with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Its main advantage over the traditional approach is that it can be used when some output quantities of some observations are zero. In this paper, we briefly discuss—and partly refute—a few existing criticisms of the stochastic ray production frontier. Furthermore, we discuss some shortcomings of the stochastic ray production frontier that have not yet been addressed in the literature and that we consider more important than the existing criticisms: taking logarithms of the polar coordinate angles, non-invariance to units of measurement, and ordering of the outputs. We also give some practical advice on how to address the newly raised issues.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFRO Working Paper ; No. 2017/01

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Model Construction and Estimation
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Thema
Stochastic Ray Production Frontier
Distance Function
Multiple Outputs
Primal Approach
Zero Output Quantities

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Henningsen, Arne
Bělín, Matěj
Henningsen, Géraldine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
(wo)
Copenhagen
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Henningsen, Arne
  • Bělín, Matěj
  • Henningsen, Géraldine
  • University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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