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:	Cazals, Catherine ; Dudley, Paul ; Florens, Jean-Pierre ; Patel, Shital ; Rodriguez, Frank
Published in:	Review of Network Economics. - De Gruyter, ISSN 1446-9022, ZDB-ID 2139394-1. - Vol. 7.2008, 2
Publisher:	De Gruyter

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	research-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2202/1446-9022.1150 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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