Recent Papers

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• "Inferences from Cross-Sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models," Econometric Reviews, forthcoming (co-authored with Léopold Simar).
• "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).
• "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).
• "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).
• "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).
• "FEAR 1.0: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 42, 247--254 (2008).
• "`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).

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