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The Study of Nature and Trend of Technological Change in Iran's Industry (1971-2008) [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2011 Technological evolutions as one of basic resources of productivity growth plays a significant role in economic growth. Therefore, after world war ІІ, the determination of measure and bias of technological change has been subject of many research efforts.
Nader Dashti +2 more
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Medidas de custo-eficiência dos serviços subnacionais de segurança pública no Brasil: 2001-2006
Economia Aplicada, 2010 Calculamos índices de custo-eficiência para os serviços estaduais de segurança pública no Brasil com um modelo de fronteira estocástica e dados longitudinais 2001-2006.
Oliveira Alves Pereira Filho +2 more
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The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie +1 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 Background Farm productivity on smallholder family-owned crop farms remains low despite several interventions to transform agriculture especially in developing countries.
Nyarai M. Mujuru +3 more
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Measurement of a cost function for US airlines: restricted and unrestricted translog models [PDF]
Journal of Transport Literature, 2014 This paper continues and expands several themes from previous studies of commercial airline cost functions. A well specified industrial cost function reveals characteristics about the market players, such as economies of scale and the cost elasticities with respect to operational styles.
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Choice of the empirical definition of zero in the translog multiproduct cost functional form [PDF]
Applied Economics Letters, 2016 ABSTRACTThe translog cost function is valuable to researchers for empirical analysis in themodelling of indirect cost and profit functions. A flaw of the functional form is in themodelling of zero output values. This study examined the impacts of empirical definition of zero output values on price elasticities, economies of scope and scale, using the ...
Yapo Genevier N’guessan +3 more
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coffee producers deal with uncertainty due to high volatility in coffee prices. To navigate these challenges, producers must balance the tradeoff between higher yield and better quality utilising heterogeneous technologies, such as intensive production methods and environmental management practices.
Orlando Rodríguez +2 more
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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
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Shareholder value in Croatian banking sector
Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics, 2019 The view on banks as investments in Croatia is challenged by two phenomena: dual holdings (owners are intensely involved in bank balance sheet as, apart from equity, they provide a significant portion of deposits and loans) and the impediments to ...
Huljak Ivan
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TRANSLOG COST FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN KENYA . [PDF]
International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research, 2021 Miriam W. Thuo, Maureen M. Ndagara
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