Measuring aeronautical service efficiency and commercial service efficiency of East Asia airport companies: An application of Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-22

  Liu, Dan ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airport company; Controllable factors; Efficiency; Network DEA; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84951738470     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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