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Translog Cost Function: An application for Bangladesh Agriculture

Asian Accounting and Auditing Advancement, 2011
This study is concerned with factor substitution in Bangladesh agriculture. The translog cost function is used to study both substitutability and complementarity relationships between inputs. Using homothetic structure, the Allen partial elasticities of substitution (AES) is estimated to examine the nature of factor substitution among the four inputs ...
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Estimating an hedonic translog cost function for the home health care industry

Applied Economics, 1998
Medicare home health care plays an important role in providing cost effective care for the chronically ill and elderly. Long seen as a cost effective substitute for nursing home care, home care has become even more important with expenditures increasing by 31.4% from 1990 to 1996.
Cynthia S. Dudzinski, O. Homer Erekson, Andrea L. Ziegert   +2 more
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Investigating hospital efficiency in the new NHS: The role of the translog cost function

Health Economics, 1995
AbstractThe reforms to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) of recent years have greatly increased the role of economic incentives in the hospital sector. Hospitals now have to compete for the business of GP and health authority purchasers and are assumed to have an incentive to minimise costs.
A, Scott, D, Parkin
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The energy rebound effect in China's light industry: a translog cost function approach

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016
Abstract China is in its industrialization and urbanization development stage, which requires strong energy support. With the largest population in the world, the energy endowment of China is relatively small. Therefore, energy conservation is one of the key tools for China's sustainable development and energy security.
Boqiang Lin, Peng Tian
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Translog Cost Functions: An Application for Mexican Manufacturing.

2007
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. We show that a model that allows for nonhomotheticity and nonunitary elasticities of substitution is ...
Héctor Salgado Banda, Lorenzo E. Bernal Verdugo   +1 more
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Modeling allocative inefficiency in a translog cost function and cost share equations: An exact relationship

Journal of Econometrics, 1997
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A translog cost function of the integrated air freight business: The case of FedEx and UPS

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2014
Abstract This paper analyzes the cost structure of the integrated air freight business by means of a translog cost function. This allows to extend knowledge on the supply side and to examine if strategies of integrators are consistent with cost structure. The cost function is based on quarterly time-series data from 1990 to 2010 for FedEx and UPS.
Onghena, Evy, Meersman, Hilde, Van de Voorde, Eddy   +2 more
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Approximate variance formulas for the elasticities of substitution obtained from translog cost functions

Economics Letters, 1982
Abstract This note supplies approximate variance formulas for the Allen Partial Elasticities of Substitution estimated with a three-input translog cost function. These formulas are based on a first-order Taylors series approximation to the true but unknown variances.
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Two Step Estimation Method for Translog Cost Function : An Application to Spanish Airport Network

International journal of transport economics
This article reports on the use of a two-step estimation method to analyze the productive structure of the airport industry in Spain. The author used the dual cost function and translog joint cost function to complete the estimation method. The author derives some parameters from the translog function such as economies of scale and price elasticities ...
Cejas, Martin, Rendeiro, Roberto
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The CES-Translog: Specification and Estimation of a New Cost Function

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1984
Pollak, Robert A, Sickles, Robin C, Wales, Terence J   +2 more
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