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Economies of scope and economies of agglomeration

Journal of Urban Economics, 1984
Abstract Agglomeration economies are economies external to the firm, and plant, but internal to a particular location. In this paper the notion of agglomeration economies is formally investigated. The implications of the concept for urban structure and industrial organization are then traced.
G.S. Goldstein, T.J. Gronberg
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Economies of Scale and Scope in Australian Telecommunications [PDF]

Review of Industrial Organization, 2001
This paper employs a composite cost function to examine the cost structure of Australian telephone services. The composite cost model combines the log-quadratic input price structure of the translog model with a quadratic structure for multiple outputs.
Bloch, Harry, Madden, Gary, Savage, Scott   +2 more
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Bilateral Economies of Scope

SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract International transactions are costly because they require investments in logistics, contracts, and the acquisition of local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed cost of entering a specific export market can be used toward covering the cost of acquiring imported inputs from that same market, and vice ...
Yao Amber Li, Sichuang Xu, Stephen R. Yeaple, Tengyu Zhao   +3 more
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Economies of Scope and the Scope of the Enterprise

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1980
Abstract Explaining the scope of activities pursued by the modern business enterprise is clearly central to our understanding of the organization of industry. Yet, as Ronald Coase points out, the received theory of industrial organization is unable to explain why General Motors is not a dominant factor in the coal business or why A ...
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Economies of scope and IPO activity in Europe

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Initial public offering (IPO) activity in Europe has recently come to a near-halt and, similarly to the US, this decline has been more pronounced among small firm IPOs. Three alternative explanations have been proposed: the economies of scope hypothesis states that getting big fast has become more important, resulting in small firms being acquired; the
Ritter, Jr, Signori, Andrea, Vismara, S.
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Economies of Scope and Payment for Physician Services

Medical Care, 1992
Physician payment reform will base payment largely upon physician work. Current reforms assume that services are provided independently, yet physicians may often perform two or more services at one time. There is evidence from other industries that services provided jointly may not require the same total resources as identical services provided ...
S D, Hillson, R, Feldman, T D, Wingert
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Economies of scale and scope in Vietnamese hospitals

Social Science & Medicine, 2004
Hospitals consume a large share of health resources in developing countries, but little is known about the efficiency of their scale and scope. The Ministry of Health of Vietnam and World Bank collected data in 1996 from the largest sample ever surveyed in a developing country.
Marcia, Weaver, Anil, Deolalikar
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On economies of scope in communication

Economic Design, 1996
A classic puzzle in the economic theory of the firm concerns the fundamental cause of decreasing returns to scale. If a plant producing product quantityX at costC can be replicated as often as desired, then the quantityrX need never cost more thanrC. Traditionally the firm is imagined to take its identity from a fixednon-replicable input, namely a ‘top
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Product choice with economies of scope

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1985
Abstract This paper develops a model in which two competing firms on a bounded line each sell two products. Production costs for each firm are lower the closer are its two products. It is shown that there may be anywhere from zero to three possible equilibrium configurations.
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Economies of diversification: A generalization and decomposition of economies of scope

International Journal of Production Economics, 2010
Abstract The paper investigates the benefits of diversification for a multi-product firm. It examines economies of diversification, reflecting the cost reduction associated with producing outputs in an integrated firm (compared to specialized firms). The analysis applies under complete specialization as well as partial specialization (when firms are ...
Jean-Paul Chavas, Kwansoo Kim
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