A metafrontier approach for measuring Malmquist productivity index

Empirical Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-64

  Oh, Dong hyun ^a   Lee, Jeong dong ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Efficiency change; Malmquist productivity index; Technical change; Technical leadership

Indexed keywords

INDEX METHOD; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGY;

ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 77951132159     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-009-0255-0     Document Type: Article

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