Search Results - subject:"Cost function"

Chapter 10 Multi-Product Cost Analysis of US Airports

McCarthy, Patrick - In: Airline efficiency, (pp. 243-281). 2016

This research estimates a multi-product flexible cost function of airport variable costs. Data for the analysis are a …

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Global Co2 Efficiency : Country-Wise Estimates Using a Stochastic Cost Frontier

Goel, Rajeev K.; Herrala, Risto - 2016

This paper examines global carbon dioxide (CO2) efficiency by employing a stochastic cost frontier analysis of about 170 countries in 1997 and 2007. The main contribution lies in providing a new approach to environmental efficiency estimation, in which the efficiency estimates quantify the...

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Yield and Area Elasticities. A Cost Function Approach with Uncertainty

Rosas, Francisco; Hayes, Dermot J. - 2010

-level data and approximating the dual cost function by a normalized quadratic flexible functional form. We derive expressions for …

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...

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Metals, Energy and Sustainability

Barry Golding - 2010

of copper production. A translog cost function is employed to develop an economic model. The independent variables are …. The cost function is estimated using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression method. The chosen economic model was tested and … based on the work of previous researchers who have used the KLEM translog cost function to examine historic data, is …

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Long-run cost functions for electricity transmission

Rosellón, Juan; Vogelsang, Ingo; Weigt, Hannes - 2010

Electricity transmission has become the pivotal industry segment for electricity restructuring. Yet, little is known about the shape of transmission cost functions. Reasons for this can be a lack of consensus about the definition of transmission output and the complexitity of the relationship...

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An analysis of local public transports' efficiency and heterogeneity in Italian regions

Bigerna S.; Polinori P. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2010) 3, pp. 543-568

translogarithmic total cost function in order to assess the presence of scale and density economies. In particular, we consider firms …

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The costs and benefits of land fragmentation of rice farms in Japan

Kawasaki, Kentaro - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 54 (2010) 4

Land fragmentation, in which a farm operates multiple, separate plots of land, is a common phenomenon in Japan and many other countries. Usually, land fragmentation is regarded as a harmful phenomenon as it increases production costs and reduces the advantages of scale economies. However, it is...

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agricultural economy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...

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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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