Adler, Nicole; Hirte, Georg; Kumar, Shravana; Niemeier, … - In: Maritime Economics & Logistics 24 (2021) 3, pp. 507-536
We develop a two-stage formulation to estimate seaport performance and to understand the drivers of efficiency, which could potentially include specialization, ownership, competition and tariff regulation. The first-stage non-parametric, slacks-based measure estimates the technical efficiency of...