The generalised translog cost function to estimate tariffs for potable water: The case of Tunisia
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022 The present study aims to estimate the marginal cost of potable water supply and analyse the implications for more efficient, equitable and income-adequate tap water tariffs in Tunisia. Furthermore, this article aims to develop a new pricing model for potable water.
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Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2007 Neste trabalho analisou-se o problema da manutenção, no longo prazo, dos produtores de leite na atividade. Foram analisados estabelecimentos nos estados de Rondônia, Tocantins e Rio de Janeiro.
Alexandre Lopes Gomes +1 more
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Energy Substitutability in Canadian Manufacturing: Econometric Estimation with Bootstrap Confidence Intervals [PDF]
This study provides estimates of the price and Morishima substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy inputs in two Canadian energy-intensive manufacturing industries: Primary Metal and Cement.
Reza Ghazal, Yazid Dissou
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Cost efficiency and UK building societies. An econometric panel-data study employing a flexible fourier functional form [PDF]
, 1998 The paper empirically quantifies firm specific 'distribution free' cost efficiency, economies of scale and economies of scope in the UK building society sector between 1990-1995. Both a flexible Fourier and a translog functional form are employed with
Ashton, J.K.
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Determining the Convergence Speed of Cost Efficiency in the Iranian Banking Industry [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2016 Banks as economic firms try to provide banking services in low cost. The efficiency of banking system and its convergence among the Iranian banks is a top priority for planners and decision-makers.
Heshmatollah Asgari, Mahin Khodarahmi
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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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Quality of Service, Efficiency and Scale in Network Industries: An analysis of European electricity distribution [PDF]
, 2005 Quality of service is of major economic significance in natural monopoly infrastructure industries but is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis.
Growitsch, Christian +2 more
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Measuring Competition in the Banking Sector of Pakistan: An Application of Boone Indicator
JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2017 The banking sector of Pakistan has witnessed a notable transformation in its structure and business activities following the implementation of financial sector reforms since the early 1990s.
Mahmood ul Hasan Khan +1 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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International trade without CES : estimating translog gravity [PDF]
, 2010 This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that allows for endogenous markups and substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations, trade is more
Novy, Dennis
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