Efficiency measurement of the English football Premier League with a random frontier model

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 994-1002

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   Garcia del Barrio, Pedro ^b  

^a ISEG LISBON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Football; Policy implications; Random frontier models

Indexed keywords

EID: 47349124035     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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