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Economies of scale in Saudi Arabia's refining sector: An application of modern econometric models. [PDF]

Heliyon
Al-Mahish M, Alzahrani F, Elzaki R, Ben Slama M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Economies of scale and scope in Australian telecommunications [PDF]

This paper employs a composite cost function to examine the cost structure of Australian telephone services. The composite cost model combines the log-quadratic input price structure of the translog model with a quadratic structure for multiple outputs ...
Bloch, Harry, Madden, Gary G, Savage, Scott J   +2 more
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Effects of healthcare financing policy tools on health system efficiency: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Arhin K, Oteng-Abayie EF, Novignon J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Multi-Output Broadacre Agricultural Production: Estimating A Cost Function Using Quasi-Micro Farm Level Data From Australia [PDF]

Existing econometric models for Australian broadacre agricultural production are few and have become dated. This paper estimates a multi-product restricted cost function using a unique quasi-micro farm level dataset from the Australian Agricultural and ...
McLaren, Keith Robert, Nguyen, Duong T.M., Zhao, Xueyan   +2 more
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Evaluating economic efficiency of the national high-tech industrial development districts in the Yangtze River Delta by stochastic frontier analysis. [PDF]

Heliyon
Yang C.
europepmc   +1 more source

The stochastic frontier analysis technique in measuring the technical and economic efficiency of hospital diagnostic laboratories: a case study in Iran. [PDF]

Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 2022
Aghlmand S, Feizollahzadeh S, Fathi B, Yusefzadeh H, Alinejhad M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dairy Consumption Trends: An Empirical Investigation of Accounting Data in China. [PDF]

Foods
Chen J, Yang CC, Lin Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Starchy staples production shortfalls in Ghana: Technical inefficiency effects outweigh technological differences across ecologies. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Ansah IGK, Appiah-Twumasi M, Tsiboe F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring and explaining farm inefficiency in a panel data set of mixed farms [PDF]

This paper aims to estimate a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of a panel of 150 mixed Catalan farms in the period 1989-1993, in order to attempt to measure and explain variation in technical inefficiency scores with a one-
Jaume Puig, Josep M. Argilés
core  

Efficiency of health systems in developing countries: the case of West African countries. [PDF]

Health Econ Rev
Akoetey K, Viallefont A.
europepmc   +1 more source