The decomposition of cost efficiency and the canonical form of cost function and cost share equations

Economics Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-51

  Balk, Bert M ^a  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; C31; Cost efficiency; Cost function estimation; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031285238     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(97)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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