The impacts of deregulation and privatization on cost efficiency in New Zealand's forest industry

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-51

  Grebner, Donald L ^a   Amacher, Gregory S ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest sector; Policy reforms; Stochastic frontier models

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEREGULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RANDOM PROCESSES; WOOD;

FOREST INDUSTRY; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0033972779     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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