Modelling Regional Welfare Efficiency Applying Conditional Full Frontiers

Spatial Economic Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-471

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

bootstrap techniques; conditional DEA; kernel density estimation; regional policies; Welfare efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859312834     PISSN: 17421772     EISSN: 17421780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2011.610812     Document Type: Article

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