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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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Economies of scope within market frameworks

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1983
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to look at the circumstances under which a market organised to take advantage of economies of scope is superior to one neglecting these but as a consequence involving less monopoly power. The question is investigated theoretically by means of two simple models in order to obtain insights into the main forces ...
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Demand side economies of scope in bundled communication services

info, 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of demand side economies of scope in relation to multiplay services. The basic question raised in the paper is the extent to which demand side economies of scope in the area of multiplay is based on an externality founded in a positive feedback mechanism as in the case of demand side economies ...
Henten, Anders, Godoe, Helge
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Economies of Scope: Economics for Lawyers

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into economies of scope – one of the basic types of efficiency gains. These economies belong to the main types of efficiency gains, which as such should occur in antitrust decisions. Yet, there are no legal nor economic papers presenting the basic economics underlying this fundamental type of efficiency ...
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Economies of Scope and Tying Agreements

2015
This article broadens the concept of cost in tie-in agreements. It is shown that the relevant economic criterion to be used in evaluating the tie-in agreements is not the price of the tied goods. Instead, where multiproduct buying is involved, it is the total acquisition costs of tied-in products which should be used as the relevant economic criterion.
Shaheen Borna, Babu Nahata
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A Note on Multiproduct Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope

1980
Let S denote a measure of (local) economies of scale for a multiproduct firm. Define "strong" economies of scope as the savings in costs arising from the joint production of all products rather than producing each product separately. Define "incremental" economies of scope as the savings in costs arising from the joint production of all products rather
Mintz, Jack M., Mintz, Jack M.
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