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  1. Department of Economics, The University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    C. A. K. Lovell

  2. Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA

    Shawna Grosskopf

  3. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Eduardo Ley

  4. University of Michigan, Michigan, USA

    Eduardo Ley

  5. Universidad de Alicante, Spain

    Jesús T. Pastor

  6. Department de Economia de la Empresa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

    Diego Prior

  7. Université Catholique de Louvain, CORE, Louvain, Belgium

    Philippe Vanden Eeckaut

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This research was supported, in part by grant PB92-0246 of the Spanish DGICYT. Knox Lovell and Hal Varian made useful suggestions to a first draft of this paper-the usual disclaimer applies.

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Lovell, C.A.K., Grosskopf, S., Ley, E. et al. Linear programming approaches to the measurement and analysis of productive efficiency. Top 2, 175–248 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02574810

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