Return to scale and external economies: empirical evidence from Greek two-digit manufacturing industries

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 485-490

  Segoura, I O ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; METHODOLOGY; RETURNS TO SCALE;

GREECE;

EID: 0031794508     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135048598354401     Document Type: Article

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