Measuring DEA efficiency in cable television network facilities: What are appropriate criteria for determining the amounts of governmental subsidies?

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-43

  Jitsuzumi, Toshiya ^a   Nakamura, Akihiro ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inst/Posts/Telecom Policy   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cable television; Data envelopment analysis; Yardstick competition

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TELEVISION;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037353438     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0121(02)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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