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    William W. Cooper

  2. University of Michigan, USA

    Lawrence M. Seiford

  3. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

    Kaoru Tone

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Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., Tone, K. (2007). Scale Elasticity and Congestion. In: Data Envelopment Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45283-8_12

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