Malmquist and Törnqvist productivity indexes: Returns to scale and technical progress with imperfect competition

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-95

  Diewert, W Erwin ^a   Fox, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flexible functional forms; Index numbers; Malmquist indexes; Non competitive behavior; Productivity; Returns to scale; T rnqvist indexes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956013062     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-010-0137-0     Document Type: Article

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