Estimating and bootstrapping Malmquist indices

✍ Scribed by Léopold Simar; Paul W. Wilson

• Book ID: 104339667
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Volume: 115
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-2217
• DOI: 10.1016/s0377-2217(97)00450-5

✦ Synopsis

This paper develops a consistent bootstrap estimation procedure for obtaining con®dence 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 (Simar, L., Wilson, P.W., 1998, Management Science). Some empirical examples are also given, using data on Swedish pharmacies.