Recent Papers
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"Inferences from Cross-Sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models,"
Econometric Reviews, forthcoming
(co-authored with Léopold Simar).
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"Robust Non-parametric Quantile Estimation of Efficiency
and Productivity Change in U.S. Commercial Banking, 1985--2004,"
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 27, 354--368
(2009)
(co-authored with David C. Wheelock).
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"Non-parametric, Unconditional Quantile Estimation
for Efficiency Analysis with An Application to Federal Reserve Check
Processing Operations,"
Journal of Econometrics 145, 209--225 (2008)
(co-authored with David C. Wheelock).
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"Asymptotics and Consistent Bootstraps
for DEA Estimators in Non-parametric Frontier Models,"
Econometric Theory 24, 1663--1697 (2008)
(co-authored with Alois Kneip and Léopold Simar).
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"Introduction for Journal of Productivity
Analysis special issue on transitioning economies,"
Journal of Productivity Analysis 29, 77 (2008)
(co-authored with Sung-Ko Li, Léopold Simar, and Valentin Zelenyuk).
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"FEAR 1.0: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R,"
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 42, 247--254 (2008).
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"`Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent
Developments and Perspectives,"
in The Measurement of Productive Efficiency, 2nd edition,
chapter 4,
ed. by H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, and S.S. Schmidt, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, Inc., pp. 421--521 (2008)
(co-authored with Léopold Simar).