This paper estimates economies of scale and scope for 55 major Australian urban utilities over the period 2005/06 to 2008/09. The models used to specify operating and capital costs as a function of chemical and microbiological compliance, water losses, water quality and service, water main...

This paper estimates economies of scale and scope for thirty-six Australian universities using a multiple-input, multiple-output cost function over the period 1998 to 2006. The three inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff and physical capital....

This paper estimates economies of scale and scope for 200 large Australian superannuation (pension) funds in 2009 using a multiple-output cost function. This is the first and currently only year that certain fund-level information provided in the superannuation annual returns to the Australian...