Efficiency in a chain of small hotels with a stochastic production frontier model

Advances in Modern Tourism Research: Economic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 107-129

  Pestana Barros, Carlos ^a   Matias, Álvaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-1718-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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