Article ID: | iaor20116972 |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 33 |
End Page Number: | 53 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
Journal: | Journal of Productivity Analysis |
Authors: | Simar Lopold, Wilson W |
Keywords: | estimation, Monte Carlo method, Statistics: bootstrap, free disposal hull |
It is well‐known that the naive bootstrap yields inconsistent inference in the context of data envelopment analysis (DEA) or free disposal hull (FDH) estimators in nonparametric frontier models. For inference about efficiency of a single, fixed point, drawing bootstrap pseudo‐samples of size