Estimating global frontier shifts and global Malmquist indices

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-148

  Asmild, Mette ^a   Tam, Fai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Frontier shifts technical change; Global indices; Malmquist productivity change index

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847415001     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-0028-0     Document Type: Article

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