Analysis of efficiency of the European postal sector

被引：14
作者：
Jose Iturralde, Maria [1 ]
Quiros, Cipriano [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Appl Econ 2, Pozuelo De Alarcon 28223, Spain
来源：
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS | 2008年 / 114卷 / 01期
关键词：
efficiency; postal sector; European Union;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.03.001
中图分类号：
T [工业技术];
学科分类号：
08 ;
摘要：
The aim of this paper is to analyse the productive change that has taken place in the postal sector of the European Union. Using the Malmquist index, the productivity growth of European postal operators is broken up into two factors: the variations in efficiency levels and the technical change. The findings obtained show how the latter was responsible for the productivity growth experienced among the group of operators in the sample. At the same time, important inefficiencies and high dispersion across operators are observed. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数：7
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