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A CLASS OF SEPARABILITY FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONAL FORMS [PDF]

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Quadratic flexible forms, such as the translog and generalized Leontief, are separability inflexible. That is, separability restrictions render them inflexible with regard to separable structures.
Driscoll, Paul J., McGuirk, Anya M.
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The returns to scale effect in labour productivity growth [PDF]

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Labour productivity is defined as output per unit of labour input. Economists acknowledge that technical progress as well as growth in capital inputs increases labour productivity.
Mizobuchi, Hideyuki
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RECENT DUALITY CONTRIBUTIONS IN PRODUCTION ECONOMICS [PDF]

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This article is a limited assessment of the agricultural production economics literature since 1982 that resulted from dual modeling approaches.
Shumway, C. Richard
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EFFICIENCY IN COMMUNITY DEVELPOMENT LOAN FUNDS [PDF]

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We study the efficiency of Community Development Loan Funds (CDLFs) in the U.S.A. between 2002 and 2005. We find that the largest CDLFs tend to be most efficient and that efficiency decreases with age and the proportion of minority representation on the ...
Hartarska, Valentina M.   +1 more
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Multi-output distance function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Interactions between species in a fishery may be either biological (e.g. predatorprey) or technical (e.g. joint production). Technical interactions within fisheries have generally been assumed to exist, although the strength of these interactions has ...
Bjorndal, T., Koundouri, P., Pascoe, S.
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The contribution of resident physicians to hospital productivity. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Health Econ, 2022
Perez-Villadóniga MJ   +2 more
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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition [PDF]

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Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using Törnqvist input and output indexes, augmented by exogenous estimates of local returns to scale. However, in order to implement their method,
Diewert, Erwin, Fox, Kevin J.
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