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Chapter 10 Profitability and productivity changes: An application to Swedish pharmacies

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The relationship between Malmquist productivity change and profitability is developed in this paper. Our theoretical construct is applied to Swedish pharmacies.

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  1. The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Lund, Sweden

    R. Althin

  2. Department of Economics, Souther Illinois University, 62901-4515, Carbondale, IL, USA

    R. Färe & S. Grosskopf

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Althin, R., Färe, R. & Grosskopf, S. Chapter 10 Profitability and productivity changes: An application to Swedish pharmacies. Ann Oper Res 66, 219–230 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02187592

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