Cost efficiency of African airports using a finite mixture model

Transport Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 807-813

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Africa; Airports; Latent class model; Panel data; Stochastic cost frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; AIRPORT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ANGOLA; MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 80051823840     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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