By Professors Paul W. Wilson and Leopold Simar
ESI Special Topics, June 2002
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Professors Paul W. Wilson and Leopold Simar answers a few questions about
their Fast
Breaking Paper below.
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Field: Economics & Business
Article Title:
"Statistical inference in nonparametric frontier models: The state of the art"
Authors: Simar, L;Wilson, PW
Journal: J PROD ANAL
Volume: 13
Page: 49-78
Year: JAN 2000
* Catholic Univ Louvain, Inst Stat, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium.
* Catholic Univ Louvain, Inst Stat, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium.
* Univ Texas, Dept Econ, Austin, TX 78712 USA.
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April
1, 2006:
This paper has also been named the Emerging Research
Front in Mathematics for April
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 Why
do you think your paper is highly cited?
The paper synthesizes a large set of results in the
statistical literature and makes them accessible to people
working in the fields of economics, management, operations
research, etc.
Can
you give us some background on this research?
Leopold Simar and I have been working on these problems for
almost ten years, and have published numerous papers with our
results.
Could
you summarize the significance of your paper in layman's terms?
The paper describes how one can make inferences about the
efficiency, productivity, etc. of firms operating in a
particular industry. Previously, most applied research simply
gave point estimates, with little or no indication of the
uncertainty surrounding these estimates.
Professor Paul W. Wilson
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Professor Leopold SIMAR
Institute of Statistics
20 voie du Roman Pays
B 1348 LOUVAIN-la-NEUVE
BELGIUM
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