Investigating the effect of weight restrictions on estimating returns to scale in convex technologies

Subject Areas : International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis

Samane Shahnazi ¹

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Received: 2021-05-04 Accepted : 2021-09-27 Published : 2021-11-01

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