Decomposing economic inefficiency in base-load power plants

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 359-378

  Zeitsch, John ^a   Lawrence, Denis ^b  

^a Tasman Asia Pacific   (Australia)

^b Bur of Transp and Commun Econ   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Electricity; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444454562     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162047     Document Type: Article

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