Production function for modeling hospital activities. The case of Polish county hospitals. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Sielska A, Nojszewska E.
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Economies of scale and scope in Australian telecommunications [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Green Total Factor Productivity and Its Saving Effect on the Green Factor in China's Strategic Minerals Industry from 1998-2017. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Jin Y, Yu L, Wang Y.
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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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American Business ReviewThe study investigates the dynamics of interaction between bank competition and risk networks of the Indian banking system between 2010 to 2020. It has estimated bank competition using the Lerner Index through the translog cost function and bank risk ...
Abhishek Poddar, Arun Misra
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Measurement and characteristics of the temporal-spatial evolution of China's healthcare services efficiency. [PDF]
Arch Public Health, 2023 Ye Y, Tao Q.
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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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Prices and production cost in aluminium smelting in the short and the long run [PDF]
, 2003 The main objective of this work is to reflect the structural changes that have characterized the aluminium industry over the last few decades. I order to capture the changes in competition I have estimated cost and related it to output prices by ...
Figuerola-Ferretti, Isabel
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Profit inefficiency of goat farming in Malawi: A Bayesian approach. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Nyakwawa C +2 more
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Prudent Electricity Procurement by a Load Serving Entity
EnergiesMotivated by the projected solar and wind capacity additions around the world, we model the energy procurement decision of a load serving entity (LSE) faced with alternatives of solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), wind PPAs, non-renewable energy ...
Kang Hua Cao +4 more
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