Alternative measurements of productive efficiency in the global bleached softwood pulp sector

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 558-569

  Yin, R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost and production functions; Data envelopment analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis; Technical and allocative efficiency

Indexed keywords

BLEACHED PULP; COSTS; PRODUCTIVITY; PULP MANUFACTURE; RANDOM PROCESSES; WOOD;

SOFTWOOD PULPS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

KRAFT PULP;

EID: 0034324328     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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