Airports in Argentina: Technical efficiency in the context of an economic crisis

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 315-319

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 56049090768     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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