Bayesian cost efficiency of Luanda, Angola hotels

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1549-1559

  Assaf, A George ^a   Barros, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Angola Luanda hotels; Bayesian stochastic frontier model; Cost efficiency; Hotels; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RETURNS TO SCALE; SERVICE SECTOR;

ANGOLA; LUANDA [ANGOLA];

EID: 79958016320     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060903576068     Document Type: Article

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