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INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY – THE CASE OF PORTUGAL [PDF]
The paper speaks of the technological evolution using a translog cost function for a western European country – Portugal. It begins by presenting the methodological framework, the estimation process based on the iterative Zellner method to estimate ...
Jose Ramos Pires Manso
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the link between export and total factor productivity using a large panel of Ethiopian large and medium manufacturing firms. Using a modified Olley and Pakes model with export for the prediction of total factor productivity and then matching and difference‐in‐difference techniques, evidence of both self‐selection and ...
Zerihun Kelil Seid +2 more
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The Econometric Specification of Input Demand Systems Implied by Cost Function Representations [PDF]
In the case of input demand systems based on specification of technology by a Translog cost function, it is common to estimate either a system of share equations alone, or to supplement them by the cost function.
Keith R. McLaren, Xueyan Zhao
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Evolution of Production Specialization and Factor Accumulation in Sub‐Saharan and North Africa
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 518-548, February 2026.ABSTRACT Despite trade liberalization and regional economic integration policies, the level of trade and specialization in Africa is stagnating. This long‐term observation contrasts with recent developments in Africa since the 2000s. This study aims to assess how changes in factor endowments affect the specialization pattern of production, exploring ...
Rimvie Enoc Kaboré
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Substitution in the Finnish forest industry’s roundwood procurement
Silva Fennica, 2012 In this study, the interaction and substitution between domestic and imported roundwood in the Finnish forest industryâs wood procurement is analysed by timber assortments.
Hautamäki, Sanna +2 more
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The Cost of Food Safety Technologies in the Meat and Poultry Industries. [PDF]
This paper uses plant-level micro-data from the 2002 Census of Manufactures, Food Safety Inspection Service, and the Economic Research Service in a translog cost function to examine the costs of effort devoted to the performance of sanitation and process
Ollinger, Michael
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Mental Accounting, Remittances, and Celebrations
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 411-437, February 2026.ABSTRACT Is one KGS of remittance income equal to one KGS of another source of income? The traditional concept of fungibility suggests that it is. However, if it is not, then migrant money transfers may cause behavioral changes at the household level, and their development impact can be huge.
Nurgul Tilenbaeva
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Agricultural and Food Science, 1994 The study presents an attempt to gain a better understanding of the input substitution and technological development on Finnish dairy farms. The dual approach of the neoclassical production and cost theory is applied.
Matti Ryhänen
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Economies of Scale, Efficient Scale and Elasticity of Substitution in Iran's Energy Intensive Industries [PDF]
Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2013 In this Study, We applied Translog cost function with four Input (Labor, Capital, Energy and Material) and ISUR[1]method for analysis of the cost structure of 11 most Energy intensive sub sector industries (With 4 Digit ISIC[2]code) of Manufacture of ...
mahammad nabi shahiki tash +2 more
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Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiencies in a Cost System: An Exact Maximum Likelihood Approach [PDF]
Estimation and decomposition of overall (economic) efficiency into technical and allocative components goes back to Farrell (1957). However, in a cross-sectional framework joint econometric estimation of efficiency components has been mostly confined to ...
Kumbhakar, Subal, Tsionas, Efthymios
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