The Malmquist productivity index and plant capacity utilization

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 303-310

  De Borger, Bruno ^a   Kerstens, Kristiaan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Capacity utilization; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034370130     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00201     Document Type: Article

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