Binghamton University

Subal C. Kumbhakar
  Distinguished Professor of Economics

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  • Prominent articles
  • Stochastic Frontier Analysis 

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    Prominent articles

       
    • Specification and Estimation of Production Risk, Risk Preference and Technical Efficiency

    • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
      February 2002
       

    • Estimation of Profit Functions When Profit is not Maximum

    • American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Best article)
      February 2001
       

    • Estimation and Decomposition of Productivity ChangeWhen Productin is not Efficient: A Panel Data Approach

    • Econometric Reviews
      Vol 19 (4) 2000
       

    • Market Imperfections and Output Loss in the Presence of Expenditure Constraint: A Generalized Sahdow Price Approach (with A. Bhattacharyya)

    • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
      Vol 79 1997
       

    • Modeling Allocative Inefficiency in a Translog Cost Function and Cost Shares Equations: An Exact Relationship

    • Journal of Econometrics
      Vol 76 1997
       

    • Production Frontiers, Panel Data, and Time-Varying Technical Inefficiency

    • Journal of Econometrics
      Vol 46 1990
       

    • The Specification of Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in StochasticProduction and Profit Frontiers

    • Journal of Econometrics
      Vol. 34 1987
       

    • Allocative Distortions, Technical Progress, and Input Demand in U.S. Airlines: 1970-1984

    • International Economic Review
      August 1992
       

    • On the Estimation of Technical and Allocative InefficiencyUsing Stochastic Frontier Functions: The Case of U.S. Class 1 Railroads

    • International Economic Review
      November 1988
       

    • Relative Performance of Public and Private OwnershipUnder Yardstick Competition: Electricity Retail Distribution (with L. Hjalmarsson)

    • European Economic Review (Highest Quality Ratingcited by ANBAR Electronic Intelligence)
      Vol 42 1998
       

    • Labor-use Efficiency in Swedish Social Insurance Offices (with L. Hjalmarsson)

    • Journal of Applied Econometrics
      Vol 10 1995
       

    • Parametric Approach to Efficiency Measurement Using a Flexible Profit Function

    • Southern Economic Journal
      Vol 63 1996
       

    • Government Interventions, Market Imperfections, and Technical Inefficiency in a Mixed Economy: A Case Study of Indian Agriculture (with A. Bhattacharyya and A. Bhattacharyya)

    • Journal of Comparative Economics
      Vol 22 1996
       

    • A Farm-Level Study of Labor Use and Efficiency Wages in Indian Agriculture

    • Journal of Econometrics
      Vol 72 1996
       

    • Price Distortions and Resource-Use Efficiency in Indian Agriculture: A Restricted Profit Function Approach (with A. Bhattacharyya)

    • Review of Economics and Statistics
      May 1992
       

    • A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms (with S. Ghosh and T. McGuckin)

    • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
      July 1991
       

    • A Study of Economic Efficiency of Utah Dairy Farmers: A System Approach (with B. Biswas and D. Bailey) 

    • Review of Economics and Statistics
      November 1989
       

    • Deregulation, Ownership and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry: Evidence from India (with S. Sarkar)

    • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
      Forthcoming
       

    • The Effect of Deregulation on the Performance of Financial Institutions: The Case of Spanish Savings Banks (with A. Vivas, C.A.K. Lovell and I. Hasan)

    • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
      Vol 33 2001
       

    • Which Banks Chose Depost Insurance?  Evidence of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in a Voluntary Insurance System (with D. Wheelock)

    • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
      Vol 27 1995

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    Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Kumbhakar, Subal C. and Lovell, C.A. Knox

    This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit frontiers, and for the estimation of the technical and economic efficiency with which producers approach these frontiers.

    Since these frontiers envelop rather than intersect the data, and since the authors continue to maintain the traditional econometric belief in the presence of external forces contributing to random statistical noise, the work is titled Stochastic Frontier Analysis





    Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Resources

    Order Information 
      Cambridge University Press
      Hardback, March 2000
      344 pages, 38 line diagrams
      ISBN 0-521-48184-8 
      List price $75.00

      Paperback, Publication is planned for December 2003
      ISBN 0-521-66663-5
      Price is not yet set

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