Decomposing growth in Portuguese seaports: A frontier cost approach

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-315

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Seaports; Stochastic cost frontier; Technical change; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244481842     PISSN: 13881973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100140     Document Type: Article

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