A Graph-Type Extension of Farrell Technical Efficiency Measure

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-110

  Briec, W ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Graph measure; Production; Proportional distance; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031485202     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007728515733     Document Type: Article

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