Search Results - subject:"Cost function"

Sustainability of metals production : the case of copper

Golding, Barry; Campbell, Harry F. - In: Mineral economics : raw materials report 26 (2014) 3, pp. 85-95

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Technical change and bias in the container shipping industry in Taiwan

Wu, Wei-ming; Lin, Jenn-rong - In: International journal of shipping and transport … 6 (2014) 4, pp. 441-459

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Cost effects of hospital mergers in Portugal

Azevedo, Helda; Mateus, Céu - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 15 (2014) 9, pp. 999-1010

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An empirical analysis of cost efficiencies in the Indian banking industry

Malhotra, Davinder Kumar; Poteau, Raymond; Malhotra, Ashok - In: International journal of business 19 (2014) 4, pp. 361-380

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Designing an if-then rules-based ensemble of heterogeneous bankruptcy classifiers : a genetic algorithm approach

Davalos, Sergio; Leng, Fei; Feroz, Ehsan H.; Cao, Zhiyan - In: Intelligent systems in accounting finance and … 21 (2014) 3, pp. 129-153

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Optimal Vessel Quotas and Capacity of a Danish Trawler Fleet Segment: A Dual Approach

Hoff, Ayoe; Frost, Hans - 2007

fishermen in terms of the optimal quota size per vessel and optimal fleet size, a dual cost-function approach is an appropriate … choice. This method is applied using a generalized Leontief cost function to model the behaviour of the Danish fleet of … trawlers below 50 GRT, targeting species for human consumption solely. The estimated cost function is used to determine the …

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Estimation of a physician practice cost function

Heimeshoff, Mareike; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2013

This is the first study to specify a physician practice cost function with practice costs as the unit of analysis. Our …

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Unobserved heterogeneous effects in the cost efficiency analysis of electricity distribution systems

Agrell, Per J.; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo; … - 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the cost efficiency of electricity distribution systems in order to enable regulatory authorities to establish price- or revenue cap regulation regimes. The increasing use of efficiency analysis in the last decades has raised serious concerns among...

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Estimation of banking technology under credit uncertainty

Malikov, Emir; Restrepo-Tobon, Diego A; Kumbhakar, Subal C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

estimate banks' production technology based on the ex-ante cost function. We model credit uncertainty explicitly by recognizing …

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Labor-savings of Roundup Ready Maize: Impact on Cost and Input Substitution for South African Smallholders

Regier, Gregory K.; Dalton, Timothy J. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

spite of significantly higher herbicide, seed, and fertilizer prices. An unrestricted cost function approach is used to …

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