Productivity comparisons: the european union agriculture [PDF]
, 1998 This paper ail11s at l11easuring the total factor productivity (TFP) of the European agricultural finns. With a Translog index, an interspatial comparison of tIle twelve European countries and intertel11poral productivity variations are computed to ...
Decimavilla Herrero, Esther +1 more
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Testing for the Impact of Skill-based Technologies on Employment of the Workforce in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2013 On one hand, the skill-based technologies increase productivity and output, reduce inflation and raise income. On the other hand, human skills are essential for implementing, adopting, utilizing physically and practically of modern and imported ...
Mostafa Emadzadeh +3 more
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A Translog Cost Function Analysis of U.S. Agriculture: 1948-1999 [PDF]
This study examines the implications of the short-run specification of the standard, static translog cost function along with the possible implications of non-stationarity by estimating a dynamic translog cost specification complete with dynamic share ...
Ball, V. Eldon +3 more
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A cost function for HIV prevention services: is there a 'u' – shape?
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2007 Background Global resource needs estimation is a critical part of addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To generate these estimates knowledge of costs and cost structures is required. The evidence base for costs of HIV prevention programmes is limited.
Hanson Kara +2 more
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Translog Cost Functions: An Application for Mexican Manufacturing. [PDF]
We use translog cost functions to estimate own-price and substitution elasticities of input demands, economies of scale and average costs in Mexican manufacturing. Data from the Mexican Annual Industrial Survey is used for 1996, 2000 and 2003.
Héctor Salgado Banda +1 more
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Estimating the Impact of SBTC on Input Demand Elasticities in Hungary [PDF]
Recent changes in the distribution of income have drawn significant attention to the changing relationship between factors of production in the aggregate production function.
Hajnalka Tarjáni
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Energy Substitutability in Canadian Manufacturing: Econometric Estimation with Bootstrap Confidence Intervals [PDF]
This study provides estimates of the price and Morishima substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy inputs in two Canadian energy-intensive manufacturing industries: Primary Metal and Cement.
Reza Ghazal, Yazid Dissou
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Assessment of water economic value in wheat and rapeseed farms (Case Study: Qazvin plain irrigation network) [PDF]
مهندسی منابع آب, 2019 In the recent decades, water resources have been severely under pressure due to increasing demand. Besides, use of water by some users affects the possibility of using water by other users.
m a, s kh, sayed Habibullah Mosavi
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RURAL-URBAN DIFFERENCES IN NURSING HOME ACCESS, QUALITY AND COST [PDF]
Rural-urban differences in the supply of nursing home services as hypothesized to be jointly affected by competitive and regulatory forces, government policies, and the cost structure.
Bradford, Garnett L., Yu, Wei
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International trade without CES : estimating translog gravity [PDF]
, 2010 This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that allows for endogenous markups and substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations, trade is more
Novy, Dennis
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