Andrew F. Daughety, Forrest D. Nelson, An Econometric Analysis of Changes in the Cost and Production Structure of the Trucking Industry, 1953-1982, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 67-75
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