Capacity and scale inefficiency: Application of data envelopment analysis in the case of the french seaweed fleet

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-365

  Guyader, Olivier ^a   Daurès, Fabienne ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Capacity; Capacity utilization; Data Envelopment Analysis; Fleet; Production frontier; Scale inefficiency; Seaweed

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749141313     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.20.4.42629482     Document Type: Article

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