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Determinants of technical efficiency of freshwater prawn farming in southwestern Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2016
This paper estimates a translog stochastic production function to examine the determinants of technical efficiency of freshwater prawn farming in Bangladesh.
Mst. Esmat Ara Begum   +2 more
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The Translog Costs Function Applied to European Railways. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Can Capital-Skill Complementarity Explain the Rising Skill Premium in Developing Countries? Evidence from Peru in the 1990s

open access: yesEconomía, 2019
The unsettled discussion continues about the factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries. Using data from Peru for the years 1994 to 2000, we analyze the determinants of within-industry share of skilled ...
Joy Mazumdar (†), Myriam Quispe-Agnoli
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Measuring Environmental Efficiency: A Case Study of Thermal Power Generation in Jonoobi, Razavi and Shomali Khorasan Provinces [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2013
Thermal power plant emissions are considered as one of the most important environmental pollutions. In this study environmental efficiency of electricity industry for NOx emissions is calculated.
ahmad seifi   +2 more
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Measuring Cost Efficiency of Ukrainian Banks in 2008

open access: yesComparative Economic Research, 2012
The paper presents the results of a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of cost-efficiency of Ukrainian banks. As of lack of data on the personnel costs, we had to set limits to the year of 2008 only.
Anatoliy Pilyavskyy   +2 more
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Team Production and Factor Substitution in Major League Baseball

open access: yesInternational Journal of Empirical Economics
In this paper, we estimate a translog production function for Major League Baseball (MLB) teams that uses factor inputs for hitting, pitching and defence over the 1960–2024 MLB seasons.
Duane W. Rockerbie
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Analyze the Relationships Between Inputs and Scale Economies in Potato Production in Ardabil Province [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production, 2015
Potato is one of the agriculture important products in Ardebil province that about 24 thousand hectares of land in this province allocated to this product. Based on available evidence, consumption of inputs in the production process in this region is not
Kh Alefi, Gh Dashti, Sh Khorrami
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TRANSLOG COST FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN KENYA . [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Science and Economic Research, 2021
Miriam W. Thuo, Maureen M. Ndagara
openaire   +1 more source

ECONOMETRIC INEFFICIENCY ESTIMATES IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT

open access: yesRevista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, 2008
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">The objective of this paper is to apply a Cobb-Douglas ...
Edward Bernard Bastiaan Rivera Rivera   +2 more
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