Scale, Skill-Mix, and Access Implications of the Production of Appointments by Primary Care Practices in England. [PDF]
Health EconABSTRACT Primary medical care has traditionally been provided by small organisations. Recent policy developments in many countries have encouraged larger practices in the hope of benefiting from increasing returns to scale, but there is little research evidence to support this.
Zhao T, Meacock R, Sutton M.
europepmc +2 more sources
Technical and cost efficiency of pond fish farms: Do young educated farmers bring changes?
Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 This study investigates how the involvement of young and educated farmers in commercial aquaculture in Bangladesh influences the technical and cost efficiency using data obtained from 100 interviews with fish farmers in Bangladesh.
Shamima Islam +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Applied Research on Optimal Scale and M&A Efficiency in the Natural Gas Energy Industry
Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Currently, the number of manufacturers in the natural gas energy industry in several regions is stagnant. However, to improve operating efficiency, it is necessary to review the current optimum number of public gas fuel utilities.
Ting-Kun Liu
doaj +1 more source
Determining the optimal rate of green tax on large industries in Iran [PDF]
اقتصاد باثبات, 2021 Environmental health is one of the most important current concerns of people and officials in the world, to the extent that everyone agrees to reduce it and believe that this national wealth should be protected not only for the present generation but ...
Ahmad Bideshki +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Asymmetric dependence between efficiency and market power in the Taiwanese life insurance industry [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2015 Both market power and efficiency contribute to the viability of the insurer, making them essential for the management of life insurance companies. This study measured efficiency using the stochastic frontier approach based on the translog cost ...
Chuang Chung-Chu, Tang Yu-Chieh
doaj +1 more source
Location, School Characteristics, and the Cost of School Meals
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012 The U.S. Department of Agriculture reimburses schools for meals provided to students participating in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Reimbursement amounts are based on national average estimated costs of meal production.
Michael Ollinger +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Empirical Study on Economies of Scale in China Manufacturing [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The paper is based on Chinese industrial enterprises database, applying the method of translog cost function to measure the economies of scale in manufacturing during the period between 2000 to 2013. The result shows that the mean of scale economies (SCE)
Lingyao WANG, Yaodong ZHOU
doaj +1 more source
Energy Substitution Effect in Major Energy Consumption Sectors of Pakistan: Translog Cost Function
Review of Economics and Development Studies, 2022 There is inadequate works available in the case of Pakistan that have tested the rebound effect due to energy use and its impacts on the environment, so in this study, comparative analysis of energy substitution effect on Pakistan’ three major energy consumption sectors industrial, transport and electricity sector has done, by using the translog cost ...
Sidra Nazir +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Measuring Market Power in the Iranian Banking Industry According to the Boone Efficient-based Approach [PDF]
International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 2018 The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the structure of the Iranian banking system and to measure the market power factor based on the Boone approach.
Forough Jahantigh +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Estimation the Marginal Cost of Production of Drinking Water in Tehran [PDF]
علوم و مهندسی آب و فاضلاب, 2018 The main objective of this paper is to determine the cost structure of the companies in charge of water production and distribution and to estimate the marginal cost of production of drinking water in Tehran.
Fateme Molaei, Morteza Tahamipour
doaj +1 more source