Efficiency in the factoring industry

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 947-959

  Fiordelisi, Franco ^a   Molyneux, Philip ^b,c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINANCIAL SERVICES; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142685420     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036884042000233177     Document Type: Article

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