Undesirable outputs and a primal Divisia productivity index based on the directional output distance function

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-146

  Feng, Guohua ^a   Serletis, Apostolos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directional output distance function; Divisia Luenberger productivity index; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

AGGREGATE DATUM; OECD COUNTRIES; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; PRODUCTIVITY INDEX; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TIME TRENDS; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUTS;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84908254032     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: 18726895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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