A cost Malmquist productivity index

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 396-409

  Maniadakis, Nikolaos ^a   Thanassoulis, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Malmquist index; Productivity change

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); MALMQUIST PRODUCTIVITY INDEX;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0344740596     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00177-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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