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We wish to test whether technical inefficiency depends on observable characteristics of the firm. We consider a two-step procedure in which the second step is a regression of estimated inefficiency on firm characteristics. A valid test of the hypothesis of no effect requires an adjustment to the variance matrix of the estimates. Unfortunately the adjustment is not distribution-free. We show that this...
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