Profit efficiency, Farrell decompositions and the Mahler inequality

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(97)00234-6zbMath0904.90020WikidataQ127146016 ScholiaQ127146016MaRDI QIDQ1127415

Shawna Grosskopf, Rolf Faere

Publication date: 13 August 1998

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

profitdirectional distance functionFarrell decompositionsinput/output distance functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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