Concepts and Metrics -- Introduction -- Metrics for the Latent Effects -- II Models and Applications -- Incomplete Information -- Bargaining -- A Jamboree of Latent Forces -- Binary Responses and Treatment Effects -- III Tools for Estimation and Inference -- Estimation Methods and Statistical...

In the context of the two-tier stochastic frontier model, we present a new closed-form stochastic specification, the half-normal one. Expressions to calculate average and conditional measures of inefficiency are provided, for regression specifications in levels and in logs. Some results related...