Measuring the efficiency of European airlines: an application of DEA and Tobit Analysis

The earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Siena, Italy, 26-29 April, 2000. This paper is also available from the EPRU website at http://www.le.ac.uk/ulsm/research/epru/dispaper.html

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