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Empirical Evidence for Decreasing Returns to Scale in a Health Capital Model [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 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 Grossman model, or decreasing returns to scale, as in the Ehrlich-Chuma model and extensions thereof.
Galama, T. +3 more
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Uncertain Random Data Envelopment Analysis: Efficiency Estimation of Returns to Scale
Advances in Mathematical Physics, 2021 Evaluating efficiency according to the different states of returns to scale (RTS) is crucial to resource allocation and scientific decision for decision-making units (DMUs), but this kind of evaluation will become very difficult when the DMUs are in an ...
Bao Jiang +3 more
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Liquidity management with decreasing returns to scale and secured credit line [PDF]
Finance and Stochastics, 2016 This paper examines the dividend and investment policies of a cash constrained firm that has access to costly external funding. We depart from the literature by allowing the firm to issue collateralized debt to increase its investment in productive assets resulting in a performance sensitive interest rate on debt.
Pierre, Erwan +2 more
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Evaluation of the Scale Effect in Agriculture of the Amur Region [PDF]
Пространственная экономика, 2016 The relationship between size of farms and their productivity creates continuing debates in the economic literature, devoted to problems of development.
Olga Gennadyevna Vasilyeva +1 more
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DEA-based integrated relationship of returns to scale – an application to road maintenance in Taiwan
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2012 An Integrated Relationship of Returns to Scale (IRRS) associated with multiple-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is proposed for identifying the returns to scale (RTS) among decision-making units (DMUs) appropriately and accurately.
Gang Lee, Ming-Miin Yu, Lung-Chuang Wang
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2013 With the rapid change of the social environment, Mainland China has become a new economic market due to the great domestic demand caused by its enormous population and the increasing economic growth rate.
Ridong Hu, Chich-Jen Shieh
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Financial Innovation, 2023 In the nonparametric data envelopment analysis literature, scale elasticity is evaluated in two alternative ways: using either the technical efficiency model or the cost efficiency model.
Alireza Amirteimoori +2 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2013 Background Conventional agriculture is increasingly based on highly specialized, highly productive farms. It has been suggested that 1) this specialization leads to farms that lack resilience to changing market and environmental conditions; and 2) that ...
Abson David J +2 more
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Efficiency Evaluation of Hospitals in the Environment of the Slovak Republic
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2014 The paper applies the Data Envelopment Analysis as a deterministic non-parametric method based on the linear programming, to measure the efficiency of Slovak hospitals based on input and output performance.
Stanislav Sendek
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Efficiency Evaluation of Hospitals in the Environment of the Czech and Slovak Republic
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015 The paper applies the Data Envelopment Analysis as a deterministic non-parametric method based on the linear programming, to measure the efficiency of Czech and Slovak hospitals based on input and output performance.
Stanislav Sendek +2 more
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