Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Robust Dynamic Space–time Panel Data Models Using εε-contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change -- Chapter 3. Unbiased Estimation of the OLS Covariance Matrix When the Errors are Clustered -- Chapter 4. Refined GMM Estimators for...

Volume 46 of Advances in Econometrics presents essays in honor of Subhal Kumbhakar. His influence on the applied productivity and efficiency profession is legion, as evidenced by his voluminous body of research, must read textbook and attendance at sessions where he is presenting or his work is...

This paper is concerned with significance testing of the effects of exogenous determinants upon the one-sided deviation term of a semiparametric stochastic frontier model. Two nonparametric significance tests for all or a subset of the determinants of inefficiency are proposed. The proposed...