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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
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THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 2020 Given the importance of food industriesin Pakistan, this studyanalyzestheircost structure by estimating thetranscendental logarithmic cost function. The study also considers elasticity of substitution along with own-price elasticity and cross-price elasticity. Four factor inputs,i.e.,labor, capital, energy,and materials,are used toestimatethe cost
Sajid Hussain, Uzma Nisar, Waseem Akram
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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
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A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This note provides a useful property of the Allen–Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The curvature of the Allen–Uzawa matrix is the same as the curvature of the Hessian matrix.
Atanas Christev, Allen Featherstone
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Analyze the Relationships Between Inputs and Scale Economies in Potato Production in Ardabil Province [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production, 2015 Potato is one of the agriculture important products in Ardebil province that about 24 thousand hectares of land in this province allocated to this product. Based on available evidence, consumption of inputs in the production process in this region is not
Kh Alefi, Gh Dashti, Sh Khorrami
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