Estimating the inefficiency in the Norwegian bus industry from stochastic cost frontier models

Transportation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 421-433

  Jørgensen, Finn ^a   Pedersen, Pål Andreas ^a   Volden, Rolf ^a  

^a Bodøs Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cost frontier models; Norwegian bus industry; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

COST FRONTIER MODELS; OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

BUS TRANSPORT; COST FRONTIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPORT ECONOMICS;

NORWAY;

EID: 0031277648     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004975000392     Document Type: Article

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