Efficiency Analysis of the Australian Accommodation Industry: A Bayesian Output Distance Function

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 116-132

  Assaf, A George ^a   Agbola, Frank W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; econometrics; hotel management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892427113     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348012451459     Document Type: Article

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