A dual measure of economies of scope

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-188

  Hajargasht, Gholamreza ^a   Coelli, Tim ^a   Rao, D S Prasada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

C1; D20; D24; Distance function; Duality; Economies of scope; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149186579     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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