Measuring German regions' environmental efficiency: A directional distance function approach

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-16

  Halkos, George E ^a   Tzeremes, Nickolaos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conditional stochastic kernel; Directional distance function; German regions; Regional environmental performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857917621     PISSN: 18644031     EISSN: 1864404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12076-011-0074-8     Document Type: Article

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