Profit efficiency, Farrell decompositions and the Mahler inequality

Economics Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-287

  Färe, Rolf ^a   Grosskopf, Shawna ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional distance function; Farrell decompositions; Input output distance functions; Profit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031578588     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00234-6     Document Type: Article

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