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The transient and persistent efficiency of Italian and German universities: a stochastic frontier analysis

Tommaso AgasistiDepartment of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering Politecnico di Milano School of Management Milano, Milan, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-3079View further author information
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Sabine GralkaFaculty of Business and Economics TU Dresden Dresden, Dresden, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 5012-5030 | Published online: 22 Apr 2019

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