Analysis of renewable energy development using bootstrap efficiency estimates

Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Aldea, Anamaria ^a   Ciobanu, Anamaria ^b  

^a Faculty of International Business and Economics   (Romania)

^b BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bootstrap algorithm; DEA; Efficiency estimates; Non parametric techniques; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955535559     PISSN: 0424267X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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