FDH Directional Distance Functions: With an Application to European Commercial Banks

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-215

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a   Kuosmanen, Timo ^b   Post, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Banks; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Directional distance function; Enumeration; Free Disposable Hull (FDH)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035644552     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011176325187     Document Type: Article

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