Efficiency and productivity of singapore's manufacturing sector 2001-2010: An analysis using bootstrapped truncated approach

Singapore Economic Review

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Boon L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bootstrap truncated regression; data envelopment analysis; Malmquist productivity; Singapore manufacturing; technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84928619672     PISSN: 02175908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217590814500398     Document Type: Article

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