Luiza Badin, Bucharest University of Economics, Romania
Bias Correction for Nonparametric Conditional and Unconditional Efficiency Estimators: A Monte Carlo Study

Abdelaati Daouia, Université de Toulouse I, France
Frontier Estimation and Extreme Values Theory
Slides

Cinzia Daraio, University of Bologna, Italy
Statistical Inference in Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Models

Jean-Pierre Florens, Université Toulouse I, France
Functional instrumental regression

Irène Gijbels, KULeuven, Belgium
Nonparametric partial-frontier estimation: robustness and efficiency

Wolfgang Härdle, HU Berlin, Germany
Copulae in tempore varientes (applied to CDO valuation)

Alois Kneip, University of Bonn, Germany
A new panel data treatment for heterogeneity in time trends

Byeong Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
Asymptotic Distribution of Conical-Hull Estimators of Directional Edges
Slides

Robin Sickles, Rice University - Houston, USA
The Skewness Problem in Stochastic Frontier Models: Fact or Fiction?
Slides

Paul Wilson, Clemson University, USA
Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators

Valentin Zelenyuk, Kyiv school of economics, Ukraine
Categorical Variables in Non-parametric Stochastic Frontier Estimation