skewness, whereas a negative one is expected under the model, which leads to estimated full efficiencies of all firms. We … stochastic frontier model allows the sample data to have the wrong skewness while estimating well-defined and non … bias than those of the classical model even if the population skewness has the correct sign. Finally, we apply the model to …

testing economic time series for normality in a robust way, taking specific data features such as serial dependence and time …