Delivery Offices Cost Frontier: A Robust Non Parametric Approach with Exogenous Variables

This paper deals with an analysis of the efficiency of delivery post offices from an estimated cost frontier. Our focus is to apply a robust non parametric approach for the cost frontier estimation, called the order-m frontier, based on the concept of "expected minimum cost" and to extend it to take into account some environmental variables. We illustrate our approach using a cross-section data set on delivery offices.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Catherine, Cazals ; Paul, Dudley ; Jean-Pierre, Florens ; Shital, Patel ; Frank, Rodriguez
Published in:	Review of Network Economics. - De Gruyter, ISSN 1446-9022. - Vol. 7.2008, 2, p. 1-15
Publisher:	De Gruyter

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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