Wheelock, David C. (contributor); … - 2005
, efficiency, quantile estimation.
1 Introduction
Benchmarking has become a wildly popular idea in management, finance, economics …, management science, and related literatures. In the case
of private firms, estimates of inefficiency have been used to explain … or the production
frontier. In economics, management science, and other disciplines, the goal is often to esti-
mate …