The productivity of private and social farms: multilateral malmquist indices for slovene dairying enterprises

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-460

  Thirtle, Colin ^a   Piesse, Jenifer ^b   Turk, Jernej ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Multilateral malmquist indices; Technical and scale efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444442162     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162052     Document Type: Article

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