The effect of incentive regulation on productive efficiency in telecommunications

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 825-846

  Uri, Noel D ^a  

^a FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Local exchange carriers; Productive efficiency; Stochastic production frontier; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035702203     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-8938(01)00086-2     Document Type: Article

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