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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Evaluating Agricultural Banking Efficiency Using the Fourier Flexible Functional Form [PDF]
This study applied more flexible cost functional form, Fourier Flexible Functional Form, and tested the validity of the Translog cost functional form as to estimate the cost function incorporating risk and loan's quality for banking industry.
Deng, Xiaohui +2 more
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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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How Stable is the Multiproduet Translog Cost Function? Evidence from the Dutch Banking Industry
Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 1996 Wie stabil ist die Translog-Kostenfunktion bei mehreren Produkten? Eine Dokumentation des niederländischen Bankensektors Dieser Beitrag untersucht auf der Grundlage einer heterogenen Stichprobe niederländischer Banken die Stabilität der Translog-Kostenfunktion bei mehreren Leistungen im Banksortiment.
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An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Effect in the Japanese Food Industry -Panel Analysis Using Flexible Translog Production Function- [PDF]
In this paper, we examine the existence of agglomeration effect on production in the Japanese food industry from 1985 to 2000 using plant-level 4-digit subclassification, panel dataset and new agglomeration index in Akune and Tokunaga (2005), and ...
Akune, Yuko +2 more
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Assesing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data: Methodology and the Cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2005 Developing countries are increasingly concerned about improving country competitiveness and productivity, as they face the increasing pressures of globalization and attempt to improve economic growth and reduce poverty.
Escribano, Álvaro, Guasch, J. Luis
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ECONOMICSThis study aimed to determine the efficiency and productivity of the production factors in the case of public transport in Sfax – the second most important agglomeration in Tunisia–.
Makhlouf Lassaad, Helali Kamel
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Urban patterns, population density and optimal city dimension: The case of public infrastructure [PDF]
Determination of the optimal city size underlies the economic rationality of infrastructure provision by local governments. We investigate the existence of decreasing average costs resulting from economies of scale, associated with larger urban ...
Prieto, Ángel +2 more
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The potential of energy substitution in the industrial sector [PDF]
, 2007 The extent of substitutability between energy and the other factors (i.e. labour and capital) and between individual fuels (coal, electricity, natural gas and petroleum) is an extremely important question and quite central to energy policy, planning and
Abd. Aziz, Azlina
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IMPOSING CURVATURE RESTRICTIONS ON A TRANSLOG COST FUNCTION USING A MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SIMULATION APPROACH [PDF]
Using Kansas Farm data from 1973 to 1998, curvature restrictions are imposed on a translog cost function. Using uninformative priors with indicator functions representing distribution and inequality constraints, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation ...
Featherstone, Allen M. +2 more
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