The Spatial Efficiency Multiplier and Random Effects in Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models
43 Pages Posted: 23 Nov 2016
Date Written: November 2016
Abstract
We extend the emerging literature on spatial frontier models in three respects. Firstly, we account for latent heterogeneity by developing a maximum likelihood random effects spatial autoregressive (SAR) stochastic frontier model. Secondly, to analyze the finite sample properties of a spatial stochastic frontier model we develop a Monte Carlo experimental methodology which we then apply. Thirdly, we introduce the concept of the spatial efficiency multiplier and show that the efficiency benchmark for a productive unit from the structural form of a spatial stochastic frontier model differs from the efficiency benchmark from the reduced form of the model.
Keywords: Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA); Spatial autoregression (SAR); Panel data; Random effects; Efficiency spillovers; Agriculture.
JEL Classification: C23, C51, D24, Q10.
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