This article specified a semiparametric stochastic frontier function using generalized additive models that accounts for random noise in the sample data. We estimated the parameters of the model by applying the generalized spline-smoothing approach to measure technical efficiency...
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One of the controversial debates in environmental economics, which began in the 1980s, is the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth. The study investigated the relationship between per capita carbon dioxide emissions and gross domestic product per capit...
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