Levent Kutlu is assistant professor in the School of Economics. He received his BSc in mathematics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), his MSc in economics from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey), and MStat in statistics and PhD in economics from Rice University. His teaching and research interests include applied econometrics, industrial organization, and social choice theory. His specific interests are productivity analysis (Stochastic Frontier Analysis), market power analysis, and price discrimination. He has a special interest in programming. At the moment his favorite programming language is Matlab.
See http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~lkutlu3/Codes/BCE/BCE.m for a code implementing the estimator proposed in the paper.