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Scientific African, 2019 In this study, we analysed the profit efficiency of Ghanaian maize farmers using data collected from 576 farmers in four agro ecological zones of Ghana. The stochastic frontier translog profit function was the main method of analysis.
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa +3 more
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The Almost Ideal and Translog Demand Systems [PDF]
This chapter reviews the specification and application of the Deaton and Muellbauer (1980) Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and the Christensen, Jorgensen, and Lau (1975) tranlog (TL) demand system.
Goodwin, Barry K., Holt, Matthew T.
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How Does Global Disinflation Drag Inflation in Small Open Economies? [PDF]
This paper shows the way how persistent world inflation shocks hitting a small open economy can re-weight the importance of domestic and foreign factors in the determination of prices. In this sense, we study why the recently observed global disinflation
Diego Winkelried, Marco Vega
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Letras de Hoje, 2015 A proposta deste trabalho é discutir o design metodológico e alguns resultados de duas pesquisas conduzidas em nível de doutorado, sobre o processo de compreensão em leitura em língua materna, incorporando a utilização de duas ferramentas tecnológicas: o
Finger-Kratochvil, Claudia +1 more
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A Review of Energy Demand Models
برنامهریزی و بودجه, 2020 Energy demand modeling is one of the main challenging issues for energy experts. This study attempts to identify the gaps and differences in the energy demand modeling literature.
Naser Khiabani, Solaleh Tavassoli
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Economic Analysis of Water Demand in Greenhouses of Khash Township [PDF]
International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development, 2014 The main goal of this study was to investigate the way of affecting of water in production of cucumber. From aspect of econometrics, mutual relationships of production function and expenses have been analysed in which Translog cost function has been ...
Javad Shahraki, Neda AliAhmadi
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Generalized Quadratic Revenue Functions [PDF]
In this paper we focus on specification of revenue functions in their dual price space. We consider two distance functions, both dual to the revenue function: Shephard output distance function and the directional output distance function, both in price ...
Michael Vardanyan +3 more
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Deterministic vs. Stochastic Methods for Frontier Estimation: Update and Illustration [PDF]
Operations Research and DecisionsWe estimate and compare a deterministic production frontier to a production frontier estimated using stochastic methods. This comparison is illustrated by estimating the Lerner index of monopoly power for a public sector producer.
William Weber +3 more
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DOES OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE MATTER? A COST EFFICIENCY STUDY OF LIFE INSURANCE FIRMS IN INDONESIA
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2019 This paper is about the cost and profit efficiency of Indonesia’s life insurance industry. Using data from 2010–2014, we compare cost and profit efficiency among local and joint venture insurers. Our empirical analysis, based on a time-invariant translog
Riski Wicaksono, Dr. Tri Mulyaningsih
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INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY – THE CASE OF PORTUGAL [PDF]
The paper speaks of the technological evolution using a translog cost function for a western European country – Portugal. It begins by presenting the methodological framework, the estimation process based on the iterative Zellner method to estimate ...
Jose Ramos Pires Manso
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