Measurement of economic efficiency using the behavioral and stochastic cost frontier approach

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-287

  Ali, Farman ^b   Parikh, Ashok ^a   Shah, Mir Kalan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cost function; Frontier function; Inefficiency; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 16144367928     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0161-8938(95)00142-5     Document Type: Article

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