Measuring the efficiencies of Asia-Pacific international airports - Parametric and non-parametric evidence

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 697-702

  Yang, Hsu Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airport efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

ASIA PACIFIC REGION; DATA ENVELOPMENT; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; HUMAN RESOURCES; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NON-PARAMETRIC; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; SCALE SIZES; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

AIRPORTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 78049404156     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.07.023     Document Type: Article

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