A Survey of Stochastic Frontier Models and Likely Future Developments

Acknowledgments

The second author acknowledges that this research is financially supported by the 2008 Sogang University Research Fund (10045). Paper presented at the 16^th Seoul Journal of Economics International Symposium held at Seoul National University, Seoul, 27 November 2008.

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