Higher education costs and scale and scope economies

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 607-614

  Sav, G Thomas ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; HIGHER EDUCATION;

EID: 2042423121     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000217643     Document Type: Article

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