Exact relations between Luenberger productivity indicators and Malmquist productivity indexes

Economic Theory

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 187-190

  Balk, Bert M ^a   Färe, Rolf ^b   Grosskopf, Shawna ^b   Margaritis, Dimitris ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Logarithmic mean; Luenberger productivity indicator; Malmquist productivity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549158547     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0228-5     Document Type: Article

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