Estimating X-Efficiency in Taiwanese Banking Using a Translog Shadow Profit Function

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-245

  Huang, Tai Hsin ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Allocative inefficiency; Profit function; Technical inefficiency; X efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034365708     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026550920602     Document Type: Article

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