Production Risk and Productivity Growth: Some Findings for Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-179

  Tveterås, Ragnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Panel data; Production risk; Salmon aquaculture; Stochastic dominance; Technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043216588     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007863314751     Document Type: Article

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