Using water supply as a model for a wider range of infrastructure services, the effect of a negative exponential density gradient on distribution costs is investigated for four monocentric urban development scenarios: (a) Densification; (b) Dispersion; (c) Suburbanisation; and (d) Constant...

The fund-flow approach to production theory was first proposed by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen almost half a century ago. Since then, from time to time it has received attention, but, probably because of its analytical complexity and difficulty to deliver sound "operational conclusions", it is now...

A pesar del rápido crecimiento y del dinamismo del sector privado de enseñanza superior se sabe poco todavía de la realidad del mismo. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar desde una perspectiva comparada la estructura de los costes de las universidades públicas y privadas en relación...

This paper investigates the returns to scale of large banks in the US over the period 1997–2010. This investigation is performed by estimating a random coefficient stochastic distance frontier model in the spirit of Tsionas (2002) and Greene (2005, 2008). The primary advantage of this model is...

The goal of this paper is to estimate the productive efficiency of Argentine banks. For this purpose, panel data of the universe of banks under the supervision of the Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina (BCRA) has been collected. In order to build the bank´s indicators, we used a database...

The Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship is characterised against others with a very high land price and intensity of use of resources from the Common Agricultural Policy programmes. To indicate the reasons for this situation, the assessment in this paper covered typical farms from the voivodeship...

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...

In this paper we study how the use of resources in the public sector affects industrial structure, the size and the productivity in knowledge-intensive clusters in local communities. We also discuss how these considerations should be implemented in costbenefit assessments of local public goods...

This paper analyses the provision of auxiliary clinical services that are typically carried out within the hospital. We estimate a flexible cost function for the three most important (cost-wise) diagnostic techniques and therapeutic services in Portuguese hospitals: Clinical Pathology, Medical...

The indivisibility argument plays an important role to explain scale, scope and capacity utilization behavior of multi-product firms. This paper makes an attempt by examining the economic relationship among scale, scope and capacity utilization in the context of a multi-stage production model...