A stochastic cost frontier in the Portuguese hotel industry

Tourism Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-192

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas cost function; Hotels; Portugal; Pousada; Stochastic; Technical effeciency

Indexed keywords

COST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3042820561     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000004323142416     Document Type: Article

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