Imposing monotonicity on outputs in parametric distance function estimations

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 4651-4661

  Perelman, Sergio ^a   Santin, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

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EID: 80051753220     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.493141     Document Type: Article

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