Productive efficiency and firm exit in the food sector

Food Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-196

  Dimara, Efthalia ^a   Skuras, Dimitris ^a   Tsekouras, Kostas ^a   Tzelepis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Firm exit; Food industry; Greece; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; INNOVATION; SURVIVAL; WEIBULL THEORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38649116298     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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