Productivity growth and biased technological change in UK airports

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 642-653

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   Weber, William L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased technological change; Policy implications; Productivity growth; UK airports

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; INDEX METHOD; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY APPROACH; RANKING; SAMPLING BIAS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349221049     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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