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Defining the Organization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Based on Production Costs

open access: yesUrban Science, 2023
A long-lasting dilemma on the efficient provision of services of general economic interest has become increasingly important in the waste management industry: competition or monopoly in municipal solid waste management.
Massimo Beccarello, Giacomo Di Foggia
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An economic study to estimate optimum sizes and economies of scale for cucumber farms in Kirkuk Governorate - Hawija district (model) for the productive season (2020)

open access: yesTikrit Journal for Agricultural Sciences, 2021
The importance of research is highlighted in seeking to increase the dunumah of yield, which leads to providing indicators for decision-makers in drawing agricultural policy and managing production resources in an efficient manner.
Manar Saleh Hamad, Hassan Thamer Zanzal
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Economies of Scale and Network Economies in Industry 4.0

open access: yesSymphonya, 2018
This paper analyses the role of cost differentials in the fourth industrial revolution. It uses a literature review in order to identify origins, definitions, enabling technologies and changes in company productivity.
Giacomo Büchi   +2 more
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Quality of Services and Efficiency: Evidence from Iranian Electricity Distribution Companies [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2021
In analyzing the efficiency of electricity distribution companies, according to the economies of scale hypothesis, due to the existence of natural monopoly properties, larger firms are expected to be technically more efficient (ceteris paribus).
Mohsen Pourebadollahan Covich   +3 more
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Capitalismo, socialismo e democrazia e le grandi imprese

open access: yesMoneta e Credito, 2013
The work takes issue with Schumpeter’s Capitalism, socialism and democracy, reviewing it in light of the recent historical evidence. The main thesis of Schumpeter’s book is that widespread concentration processes in modern capitalism, arising from static
P. SYLOS LABINI
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Marshall's scale economies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban Economics, 2003
Using panel data this paper estimates plant level production functions for machinery and high-tech industries that allow for scale externalities from other plants in the same industry locally and from the scale or diversity of local economic activity outside the own industry.
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A RICARDO MODEL WITH ECONOMIES OF SCALE [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 1991
A model of international trade that resembles the classical Ricardo model but differs from it in admitting economies of scale in production is described.
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Determination of Optimal Electricity Price: A Case Study of the Tavanir Co [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2017
Correct pricing power of the most important tools for comprehensive planning for safe and efficient use of electricity (consumption efficiency) and integrity investments to meet electricity demand (production efficiency) is considered.
Farhad Rahbar   +2 more
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A comparison of parametric and nonparametric estimation methods for cost frontiers and economic measures

open access: yesJournal of Applied Economics, 2019
This article examines the empirical performance of alternative frontier estimators’ ability to replicate a known underlying technology and economic measures such as multi-product and product-specific economies of scale, and economies of scope.
Bryon J. Parman, Allen M. Featherstone
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Formalizing “external economies”: Viner, Chipman, and Krugman

open access: yesŒconomia, 2015
The paper traces the developments in the formal treatment of “external economies” from the seminal contribution of Jacob Viner via John Chipman’s introduction of the concept of “parametric external economies” through to Paul Krugman’s modelling of ...
Christian Gehrke
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