A benchmarking analysis of Spanish commercial airports. A comparison between SMOP and DEA ranking methods

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-134

  Martín, Juan Carlos ^a   Román, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airport performance; Benchmarking; DEA; Ranking; SMOP; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL AIRPORTS; DEA; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL TESTS; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; RANKING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SMOP; SUPER-EFFICIENCY;

AIRPORTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; PRODUCTIVITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 33646731536     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-006-7696-1     Document Type: Article

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