Is skill more important than luck in explaining fish catches?

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-25

  Alvarez, Antonio ^a   Schmidt, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fishing; Panel data; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747105970     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-0002-x     Document Type: Article

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