Allocative efficiency measurement revisited-Do we really need input prices?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1093-1109

  Badunenko, Oleg ^a   Fritsch, Michael ^a,b,d   Stephan, Andreas ^a,c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^d Max Planck Institute of Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Chemical industry; Data envelopment analysis; Frontier analysis; Monte Carlo study

Indexed keywords

EID: 47349125864     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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