Analysis of efficiency of the European postal sector

Maria José Iturralde and Cipriano Quirós

International Journal of Production Economics, 2008, vol. 114, issue 1, 84-90

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the productive change that has taken place in the postal sector of the European Union. Using the Malmquist index, the productivity growth of European postal operators is broken up into two factors: the variations in efficiency levels and the technical change. The findings obtained show how the latter was responsible for the productivity growth experienced among the group of operators in the sample. At the same time, important inefficiencies and high dispersion across operators are observed.

Date: 2008
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