The cost of strikes in the Spanish mining sector: Modelling an undesirable input with a distance function

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-83

  Rodríguez Álvarez, Ana ^a   Del Rosal, Ignacio ^a   Baños Pino, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coal sector; Duality theory; Input distance function; Rent seeking; Shadow prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846975106     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-0023-5     Document Type: Article

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