ESTIMATING EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION EXPENDITURES ON PRODUCTIVITY: A TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH [PDF]
The effects of agricultural research and extension expenditures on productivity in the United States are estimated during the period 1949-81 using data for ten production regions.
Lu, Yao-Chi +2 more
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Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: An Array of Perspectives
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we show how Törnqvist growth accounting in the open economy can be conducted from a number of different perspectives, depending on which input and output prices or quantities are chosen to be the explanatory factors. This approach offers a wide spectrum of decompositions, each one being potentially best suited to analyze ...
Ulrich Kohli
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Factors Affecting U.S. Demand for Reduced-Fat Fluid Milk
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1996 U.S. fluid milk consumption has changed dramatically since the early 1970s. Whole milk accounted for over 81% of commercial fluid milk disappearance in 1970. By 1993, this percentage was less than 39%.
Brian W. Gould
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A multi-output analysis of the iron and steel industry [PDF]
, 1984 Bibliography: p ...
Turnovsky, Michelle H.
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THE ALMOST IDEAL SUPPLY SYSTEM AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES [PDF]
This paper estimates an Almost Ideal Supply System using aggregate U.S. agricultural data. Share equations derived from an indirect production function yield elasticities that are consistent with production theory.
Hilmer, Christiana E., Holt, Matthew T.
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The Translog Costs Function Applied to European Railways. [PDF]
, 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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Determinants of technical efficiency of freshwater prawn farming in southwestern Bangladesh
Journal 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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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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Assesing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data: Methodology and the Cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2005 Developing countries are increasingly concerned about improving country competitiveness and productivity, as they face the increasing pressures of globalization and attempt to improve economic growth and reduce poverty.
Escribano, Álvaro, Guasch, J. Luis
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Consolidation, Scale Economics and Technological Change in Japanese Banking [PDF]
, 2005 The paper examines the technological structure of the Japanese banking sector before the onset of the banking crisis and structural reforms of the 90s in order to shade light on the logic of the recent trend to consolidation in the industry.
Tadesse, Solomon
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