Measuring technical efficiency in sports

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 579-598

  Collier, Trevor ^a   Johnson, Andrew L ^b   Ruggiero, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; regression; serial correlation; technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755161487     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002510391582     Document Type: Article

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