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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido +2 more
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Deterministic vs. Stochastic Methods for Frontier Estimation: Update and Illustration [PDF]
Operations Research and DecisionsWe 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
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An Estimation of Disguised Unemployment in Iranian Manufacturing Industries [PDF]
Faslnāmah-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
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Translog Cost Function Estimation: Banking Efficiency [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the selection of data source and econometric technique for studies of banking efficiency using translog cost functions. We examine the use of Seemingly Unrelated Regression estimation for a cost function, as against estimation using ...
Daglish, Toby +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis +1 more
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Estimating the Parameters of Inter-industry Variability Function of Profit Margins and Evaluating the Degree of Concentration in the Iranian Manufacturing Industries Based on the U-Davies Approach [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2014 The objective of this paper is to estimate and analyze market power and degree of concentration in Iran's Manufacturing industries. The paper employs Inter-industry Variability function of profit margin approach and U-Davies in order to evaluate degree ...
Mohammad Nabi Shahiki Tash, Ali Norouzi
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of two greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation practices—minimum tillage and mid‐season drainage—on rice farmers' farm performance (e.g., crop yield and risk) and economic outcomes (e.g., income and vulnerability).
Hongyun Zheng, Wanglin Ma
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Economies of Scale in the South Korean Natural Gas Industry
Energies, 2019 The South Korean natural gas (NG) import volume in 2017 was 33.7 million tonnes per annum (13.1%), making it the second-largest NG-importing country in the world after Japan.
Jeong-Joon Yu +2 more
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The Translog Costs Function Applied to European Railways. [PDF]
, 1992 This paper expands the exploratory analysis undertaken by Vigoroux-Steck (1990), who used statistical cost techniques, in conjunction with UIC published data, to estimate cost functions for 13 Western European railway operations. Four improvements have been made to Steck's work.
Preston, P.M., Aldridge, D.M.
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu +2 more
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