Frontier production functions
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Econometric Reviews
- Vol. 4 (2) , 289-328
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938608800089
Abstract
This paper summarizes the literature on frontier production and cost functions and on their relationship to the problem of efficiency measurement.Keywords
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