Exact relations between four definitions of productivity indices and indicators

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-274

  Briec, Walter ^a   Kerstens, Kristiaan ^b   Peypoch, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Approximate relation; Exact relation; Luenberger and Luenberger Hicks Moorsteen productivity indicators; Malmquist and Hicks Moorsteen productivity indices

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 84859423467     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: 14678586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2010.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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