Estimating Time-Varying Technical Inefficiency for a Panel of Telecommunications Operators: A Distance Function Approach
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Keywords
D24; L51; L96; Efficiency analysis; Distance function; Telecommunications industry; Incentive regulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
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