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Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen
Stange, Henriette; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2003
Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu … der durchschnittlichen Effizienz im Vergleich von 1993 zu 2000. Bei der Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren auf die … technische Effizienz hat die Wahl der Rechtsform keinen Einfluss. Hingegen beeinflussen Betriebsgröße und Spezialisierung die …
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Economies of scale: A survey of the empirical literature
Junius, Karsten - 1997
If firms were animals rather than economic entities, a behavioral scientist trying to describe their traits would observe that firms tend to be found in herds and usually migrate towards the biggest watering holes. This paper surveys the literature on the questions why firms grow stronger with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275227
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The aggregate Le Chatelier Samuelson principle with Cournot competition
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Laisney, François - 2010
This paper studies the aggregate substitution and expansion effects triggered by changes in input prices, in a context where firms supply a homogenous commodity and compete in quantities à la Cournot. We derive a sufficient condition for the existence of a Cournot equilibrium and show that this...
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The Elasticities of Complementarity and Substitution
Broer, Peter - 2004
This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...
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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...
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Returns-to-scale properties in DEA models: The fundmantal role of interior points
Krivonozhko, Vladimir; Førsund, Finn R. - 2009
Attempts can be found in the DEA literature to identify returns to scale at efficient interior points of the production possibility set on the basis of returns to scale at points of the corresponding reference sets. However, an opposite approach is put forward in this paper, advocating that...
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Rationalizing National Government Subsidies for State Universities and Colleges
Manasan, Rosario G. - 2012
the effectiveness in the use of public funds for higher education and by increasing the efficiency of SUCs spending …
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Efficiency and economies of scale in academic knowledge production
Felderer, Bernhard; Obersteiner, Michael - 1999
endogenous growth models. Second, we determine efficiency scores for each individual country. For the estimation of efficiencies … efficiency ranking is found. …
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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007
association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …
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Quality of Service, Efficiency, and Scale in Network Industries: An Analysis of European Electricity Distribution
Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2005
addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these … industries. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a sample of about 500 …-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and without incorporating quality of service …
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