A survey of frontier production functions and of their relationship to efficiency measurement
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Publication:1142672
DOI10.1016/0304-4076(80)90040-8zbMath0439.90007OpenAlexW1981792670WikidataQ126635289 ScholiaQ126635289MaRDI QIDQ1142672
Peter Schmidt, C. A. Knox Lovell, Finn R. Førsund
Publication date: 1980
Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(80)90040-8
Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02)
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