How cost efficient are Australia's mining industries?

Energy Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-329

  Asafu Adjaye, J ^a   Mahadevan, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost inefficiency; Stochastic translog cost frontier; Technical and allocative efficiency; Technological progress; Total factor productivity growth

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY (TFP);

MINING;

ECONOMY OF SCALE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; MINING INDUSTRY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0038270716     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-9883(02)00104-4     Document Type: Article

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