Analyzing the total productivity change in travel agencies

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 27-37

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   Dieke, Peter U C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Malmquist DEA model; Portugal; Productivity; Tobit model; Travel agencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549127559     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354207780956708     Document Type: Article

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