Measuring the economic efficiency of airports: A Simar-Wilson methodology analysis

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1039-1051

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airports; Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; Italy; Truncated regression

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; STATISTICS;

BOOTSTRAP; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY OF AIRPORTS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; ITALY; PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCIES; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TRUNCATED REGRESSION; TWO STAGE PROCEDURE;

AIRPORTS;

AIRPORT; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 48649084561     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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