The biennial Malmquist productivity change index

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Pastor, Jesús T ^a   Asmild, Mette ^b   Lovell, C A Knox ^c  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Infeasibilities; Malmquist productivity indices; Productivity change decompositions; Technical regress

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; INDEX METHOD; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PRODUCTIVITY; RETURNS TO SCALE;

EID: 78649905188     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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