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Evaluating Agricultural Banking Efficiency Using the Fourier Flexible Functional Form [PDF]

This study applied more flexible cost functional form, Fourier Flexible Functional Form, and tested the validity of the Translog cost functional form as to estimate the cost function incorporating risk and loan's quality for banking industry.
Deng, Xiaohui, Escalante, Cesar L., Yu, Yingzhuo   +2 more
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Impact of inter-city interactions on disease scaling. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Loureiro NA, Neto CR, Sutton J, Perc M, Ribeiro HV.   +4 more
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Redundancies in an industry in transition: who gets fired and why? Evidence from one consumer-goods industry in Russia [PDF]

Does employee productivity explain why during a period of crisis firms fired relatively more blue-collar than white-collar workers and why, when conditions improved, they began to hire relatively more blue collars?
Rinaldi, Gustavo
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Analyzing the impact of competitiveness factors on increasing grain production in Kazakhstan and Russia. [PDF]

Heliyon
Syromyatnikov D, Salimova S, Kolpak E, Mukhametov A.   +3 more
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Water Losses and Hydrographical Regions Influence on the Cost Structure of the Portuguese Water Industry [PDF]

There is a consensus that the emphasis on the management of water resources should be put on demand side policies. However, some questions remain to be solved on the supply side, which are frequently absent from empirical studies based on the estimation ...
Adelino Fortunato, Fernando Coelho, Rita Martins   +2 more
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An Analysis of the Cost Structure of Food Industries in Pakistan: An Application of the Translog Cost Function

Lahore Journal of Economics
Given the importance of food industriesin Pakistan, this study analyzes their cost structure by estimating the transcendental logarithmic cost function. The study also considers elasticity of substitution along with own-price elasticity and cross-price 
Sajid Hussain, Uzma Nisar, Waseem Akram
doaj  

Agricultural trade liberalization, governance quality, and technical efficiency in the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia. [PDF]

Heliyon
Trakem V, Fan H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Another look at the inflation-productivity trade-off [PDF]

Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation to the specification of the model adopted for its identification.
Epaminondas Panas, Georgios Bitros
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Impact of combined climate-smart agriculture practices on the technical efficiency and efficiency yield gap in Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Bedasa Y, Gemechu A, Bedemo A.
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Learning in Organic Farming An Application on Finnish Dairy Farms [PDF]

Organic farming technology may be relatively unknown to farmers at the time when they switch from conventional into organic farming. Therefore, experience gained over time and learning by doing may be important determinants in the efficiency of organic ...
Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M., Sipilainen, Timo   +1 more
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