Spatial Stochastic Frontier Model with Endogenous Spillovers
22 Pages Posted: 8 Jul 2020
Date Written: June 7, 2020
Abstract
We propose a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model, which allows for endogenous spillovers (i.e., the spatial weighting matrix is not independent of the two-sided error term). The parameters of the model are estimated via the maximum likelihood estimation method. Monte Carlo simulations illustrate that our model performs well in finite samples. As an example, we employed our methodology to the US banks and found evidence for endogenous spillovers. The empirical example suggested potential biases in the parameter estimates when endogeneity of spillovers is ignored.
Keywords: Productivity and competitiveness, US banks, Endogeneity, Spatial autoregressive model, Stochastic frontier
JEL Classification: C13, C23, C36, D24
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