The key tasks in the design of a choice modelling (CM) experiment are to define the scope, scale and frame of the … tradeoffs presented to respondents. This study explores the scale and scope of choice tasks and then develops definitions of … these terms. The scope of a good in a stated preference experiment refers to the dimensions used to define the good as well …

in selecting, describing and combining choice attributes. It also looks at how to incorporate tests for geographic scale … (size) and scope (complexity) differences into the design of the CM survey instrument. The potential to include information …

identified. First, there is a general paucity of relevant source study estimates. Second, there is a need for scale adjustment … local council jurisdiction. Third, there is a need for some level of scope adjustment to account for the very high values of …

of economies of scope and scale. The model uses U.S. hog sector data for the period, 1982-1997. Results indicate … efficiency gains are realized due to vertical integration and can be explained by scope and scale efficiency gains. The t-test at … the 5% level of significance indicates the mean overall efficiency gains; scope efficiency gains and scale efficiency …

trade liberalization, low efficiency firms always reduce their product scope, but high efficiency firms may expand their … scope. The model demonstrates the importance of the interplay between product and factor markets. …

trade liberalization, low efficiency firms always reduce their product scope, but high efficiency firms may expand their … scope. The model demonstrates the importance of the interplay between product and factor markets. …

-sized incumbents. These data suggest that scale economies persist even for the largest cohort of U.S. dairy farms and scale economies … dominate scope economies for large farms. …

in bio-physical modelling include those relating to scale and scope. Scale issues include how to address the landscape … impacts of particular (or a series of local) on-ground works proposals. Scope issues include assessment of multiple …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the conditions under which capability, transaction and scale considerations … scale of processes, while limiting counteracting forces deriving from errors of strategy that are due to cognitive inertia …

to scale and decreasing (increasing) scope economies for the cost (profit) model. Further analyses evaluate the …This paper employs stochastic frontier cost and profit models to estimate economies of scale as well as X … analyses of large European and U.S. banks are strikingly similar with decreasing (increasing) cost (profit) returns to scale …