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IS THERE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR DECREASING RETURNS TO SCALE IN A HEALTH CAPITAL MODEL? [PDF]
Health Economics (United Kingdom), 2012 We estimate a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model that is an extension of the well-known Grossman model. Of particular interest is whether the health production function has constant returns to scale, as in the standard ...
Titus J Galama +2 more
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Is more always better? On the relevance of decreasing returns to scale on innovation
Technovation, 2021 We contribute to the literature on the assessment of innovation systems by relating the amount of inputs available to the system and its performance through the concept of returns to scale (increasing, constant or decreasing). We study to what extent the
Javier Barbero +2 more
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Efficiency assessment of gynecological resource allocation in tertiary hospitals: a Data Envelopment Analysis approach [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Efficient allocation of gynecological resources in tertiary hospitals is crucial to ensuring high-quality healthcare services. This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of gynecological resource allocation in tertiary hospitals across Jiangsu
Xi Cheng +5 more
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An empirical study on the returns to scale of supply structure in China’s economic growth: 1993–2015
China Political Economy, 2019 Constant or decreasing returns and increasing returns to scale are two kinds of mechanism in economic growth. The goal of supply-side structural reform is to promote the establishment of the mechanism with increasing returns to scale.
Wei Jie
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A new model to measuring efficiency and returns to scale on data envelopment analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering, 2021 We extend the concept of returns to scale in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the weight restriction environments. By adding weight restrictions, the status of returns to scale, i.e. increasing, constant, and decreasing, may need a change.
Behrouz Daneshian +4 more
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Evaluation of Nosocomial Infection Management Efficiency Based on the Data Envelopment Analysis Model [PDF]
Risk Management and Healthcare PolicyJin Wang,1,* Gan Wang,2,3,* Chaoyi Qi4 1Department of Healthcare-associated Infection Management, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; 2Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Fudan University ...
Wang J, Wang G, Qi C
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On estimating optimal α-returns to scale
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2019 Jean-Philippe Boussemart +2 more
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SCALE EFFICIENCY IN EUROPEAN PORK PRODUCTION [PDF]
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2015 The paper analyses scale efficiency in European pork production. The analysis shows significant differences in the exploitation of economies of scale among EU member states.
Lukas CECHURA +3 more
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 In an effort to address the decline in maize productivity, the government of Zimbabwe in 2016/17 endorsed a special program for input support named command agriculture scheme (CAS).
Norman T. Muzeza +2 more
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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022 Purpose. The purpose of this study is to sensitivity analysis analyze the returns to scale in two-stage network based on DEA models. The main focus of the firms has always been to obtain the maximum output with the least available resources, which points
Maryam Sarparast +2 more
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