Estimating Radial Measures of Productivity Growth: Frontier vs Non-Frontier Approaches

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-46

  Atkinson, Scott E ^a   Cornwell, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance Functions; Efficiency Change; Frontier Cost Functions; Malmquist Indices; Productivity Change; Technical Change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032373948     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018394231538     Document Type: Article

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