Article ID: | iaor20001880 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 115 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 459 |
End Page Number: | 471 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1999 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Wilson Paul W., Simar Lopold |
Keywords: | statistics: sampling |
This paper develops a consistent bootstrap estimation procedure for obtaining confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of productivity and their decompositions. Although the exposition is in terms of input-oriented indices, the techniques can be trivially extended to the output orientation. The bootstrap methodology is an extension of earlier work described in Simar and Wilson. Some empirical examples are also given, using data on Swedish pharmacies.