Stochastic frontier analysis is a popular tool to assess firm performance. Almost universally it has been applied using maximum likelihood estimation. An alternative approach, pseudolikelihood estimation, decouples estimation of the error component structure and the production frontier, has been...

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...