Journal
ECONOMETRIC REVIEWS
Volume 36, Issue 1-3, Pages 156-181Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2015.1114289
Keywords
62G32; 62G35; 62G10; 62H12; 62H15; Efficiency; production; extreme value theory; benchmarking; quantile
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Funding
- IAP Research Network P7/06 of the Belgian State (Belgian Science Policy
- U.S. National Science Foundation [SMA-1243436]
- Cyber Infrastructure Technology Integration group at Clemson University
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When faced with multiple inputs and outputs , traditional quantile regression of Y conditional on X=x for measuring economic efficiency in the output (input) direction is thwarted by the absence of a natural ordering of Euclidean space for dimensions q (p) greater than one. Daouia and Simar (2007) used nonstandard conditional quantiles to address this problem, conditioning on Yy (Xx) in the output (input) orientation, but the resulting quantiles depend on the a priori chosen direction. This article uses a dimensionless transformation of the (p+q)-dimensional production process to develop an alternative formulation of distance from a realization of (X, Y) to the efficient support boundary, motivating a new, unconditional quantile frontier lying inside the joint support of (X, Y), but near the full, efficient frontier. The interpretation is analogous to univariate quantiles and corrects some of the disappointing properties of the conditional quantile-based approach. By contrast with the latter, our approach determines a unique partial-quantile frontier independent of the chosen orientation (input, output, hyperbolic, or directional distance). We prove that both the resulting efficiency score and its estimator share desirable monotonicity properties. Simple arguments from extreme-value theory are used to derive the asymptotic distributional properties of the corresponding empirical efficiency scores (both full and partial). The usefulness of the quantile-type estimator is shown from an infinitesimal and global robustness theory viewpoints via a comparison with the previous conditional quantile-based approach. A diagnostic tool is developed to find the appropriate quantile-order; in the literature to date, this trimming order has been fixed a priori. The methodology is used to analyze the performance of U.S. credit unions, where outliers are likely to affect traditional approaches.
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