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Does size matter? : Economies of scale in the German mutual fund industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, we analyze economies of scale for German mutual fund complexes. Using 2002-2005 data of 41 investment management companies, we specify a hedonic translog cost function. Applying a fixed effects regression on a one-way error component model
Maurer, Raimond, Schaefer, Alexander
core  

A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Sectoral Aggregation on Elasticities of Substitution Using Translog Cost Function

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract Economic models are widely used to simulate policy scenarios, in which elasticities are used as measures of substitutability between production inputs. These models need appropriate levels of sector aggregation to produce policy-relevant results and to capture the variations of input substitutability among different sectors, while ...
Gilang Hardadi, Stefan Pauliuk
openaire   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of Optimal Electricity Price: A Case Study of the Tavanir Co [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2017
Correct pricing power of the most important tools for comprehensive planning for safe and efficient use of electricity (consumption efficiency) and integrity investments to meet electricity demand (production efficiency) is considered.
Farhad Rahbar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deterministic vs. Stochastic Methods for Frontier Estimation: Update and Illustration [PDF]

open access: yesOperations Research and Decisions
We estimate and compare a deterministic production frontier to a production frontier estimated using stochastic methods. This comparison is illustrated by estimating the Lerner index of monopoly power for a public sector producer.
William Weber   +3 more
doaj  

An Estimation of Disguised Unemployment in Iranian Manufacturing Industries [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to estimate disguised unemployment in Iran manufacturing industries. For this purpose, we have used a dynamic employment model. The labor requirement frontier was approximated by applying Frontier Analysis method and translog
Mohammadgholi Yousefi, Bahman Khadem
doaj   +1 more source

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