New evidence on the efficiency of Italian airports: A bootstrapped DEA analysis

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 84-93

  Curi, Claudia ^a   Gitto, Simone ^b   Mancuso, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airport efficiency; Bootstrapping DEA; Italian airports; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RETURNS TO SCALE;

ITALY;

EID: 79952041576     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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