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Understanding Australia’s industry-level productivity dynamics: from measurement to econometric estimation

Zheng, Weiquan - 2009

This thesis investigates a range of issues related to the industry-level productivity growth in Australia. It … productivity (MFP) index for the 12 market-sector industries in Australia using the non-parametric, growth accounting approach. It … several one-digit level industries in Australia. The third major part of the thesis attempts to provide some systematic …

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Optimal Vessel Quotas and Capacity of a Danish Trawler Fleet Segment: A Dual Approach

Hoff, Ayoe; Frost, Hans - 2007

In the period of investigation, 1995–2000, the Danish fishery for species meant for human consumption was managed by individual non-transferable vessel quotas, while the fishery for species meant for fishmeal and fish oil was subject to a total quota. The revenues of the fishermen targeting...

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Yield and Area Elasticities. A Cost Function Approach with Uncertainty

Rosas, Francisco; Hayes, Dermot J. - 2010

This paper develops a method to jointly estimate crop yield elasticities and area elasticities with respect to output prices based on a theoretically consistent model. The model uses a duality theory approach for the multi-output and multi-input firm, and introduces uncertainty in the level of...

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Discussão dos retornos à escala nos contextos das funções de produção e de custo

Alves, Eliseu - 2007

The article deals with the cost function at a mathematical level that only requires knowledge of differentials, but except for that, it keeps rigor at a high level. It only states theorems that require long proofs. The article justifies the existence of the cost function, points out its...

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...

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Cooperation Costs and the Economics of Intergovernmental Partnerships

Adelaja, Soji; Racevskis, Laila A. - 2005

Increasingly, state and local governments are promoting intergovernmental coordination, cooperation, and/or outright consolidation (3Cs) based on the perceived economies of scale advantages of such joint actions. However, the growing public finance and political science literature on...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcon, Silverio - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...

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Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2006

This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish,...

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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills

Thapa, Sridhar - 2007

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production

Simpson, R. David - 2001

There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods. Although the conceptual basis for conducting such exercises is straightforward, the data with which to implement them empirically is...

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