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Competition and market power in physician private practices

Gunning, Timothy; Sickles, Robin - In: Empirical Economics 44 (2013) 2, pp. 1005-1029

This article presents a theoretical and empirical model to examine competition in physician private practices … implementing a conjectural variation framework. Our study uses the 1998 American Medical Association Physician Socioeconomic … Monitoring Survey and tests for collusion and market power in physician private practices. The year 1998 is of particular …

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Factors Associated with Geographic Variation in Cost Per Episode of Care for Three Medical Conditions (Journal Article)

Hadley, Jack; Reschovsky, James D.; O'Malley, Alistair J.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

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The Optimal Size of German Child Care Centers and the Impact of Regulation: Estimating the Cost Function of a Regulated Mulzi-Product Firm

Boenisch, Peter; Tagge, Sven - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 5, pp. 545-566

Using a unique data set on German child care centers, we estimate a long-run multi-product cost function for child care provision in Germanywhile taking into account legal minimal labor input restrictions. For a representative child care center we find economies of scale, a U-shaped average cost...

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Water losses and hydrographical regions influence on the cost structure of the Portuguese water industry

Martins, Rita; Coelho, Fernando; Fortunato, Adelino - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 38 (2012) 1, pp. 81-94

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Measuring performance in the presence of stochastic demand for hospital services: an analysis of Belgian general care hospitals

Smet, Mike - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 27 (2007) 1, pp. 13-29

Since demand for hospital services is subject to substantial variability, the relationship between uncertain demand, excess capacity, hospital costs and performance should be investigated thoroughly. In this paper a waiting time indicator to proxy hospital standby capacity is incorporated into a...

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Water Losses and Hydrographical Regions Influence on the Cost Structure of the Portuguese Water Industry

Martins, Rita; Coelho, Fernando; Fortunato, Adelino - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2008

There is a consensus that the emphasis on the management of water resources should be put on demand side policies. However, some questions remain to be solved on the supply side, which are frequently absent from empirical studies based on the estimation of cost functions. This paper aims to fill...

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Cost Structure of the Portuguese Water Industry: a Cubic Cost Function Application

Martins, Rita; Fortunato, Adelino; Coelho, Fernando - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2006

The main scope of this paper is to confirm, or otherwise, the idea usually presented in national reports and strategic programmes for the water sector that the Portuguese water market is a natural monopoly. Based on a multi-product approach (considering the m3 of potable water delivered and...

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Non-jointness and scope economies in the multiproduct symmetric generalized McFadden cost function

Stewart, Kenneth - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 32 (2009) 3, pp. 161-171

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Economies of scale and scope of university research and technology transfer: a flexible multi-product approach

Duch-Brown, Néstor; Parellada-Sabata, Martí; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

This paper empirically analyzes economies of scale and of scope in the production of research and technology transfer outputs in the Spanish public university system. We employ the flexible fixed cost quadratic function which relates total university R&D expenditure and the budget of the...

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Crop Substitution on UK Sugar Beet Farms and its Effects on the Environment: A Multi-Product Cost Function Approach

Giha, Cesar L. Revoredo; Renwick, Alan W. - Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge - 2005

This paper analyzes the effect that the imminent reform of the EU sugar beet regime will have on United Kingdom (UK) sugar beet farms. Specifically, we estimate a multi-product cost function to analyze the effect the changes on the sugar beet price support and quota will have on the crop...

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