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Integrated Assessment Modeling in Canada: The Case of Acid Rain

Mariam, Yohannes; Lam, David; Barre, Mike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

In the past, environmental decision making has been based on analysis of policy options with respect to emission reduction, deposition or concentration of pollutants and the design of preventive strategies using disparate single-model and discipline results. It was impossible to obtain optimal...

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Optimal Acid Rain Abatement Strategies for Eastern Canada

Mariam, Yohannes; Smith, W.B.G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

In the past environmental management practices have been based on disparate analysis of the impacts of pollutants on selected components of ecosystems. However, holistic analysis of emission reduction strategies is necessary to justify that actions taken to protect the environment would not...

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Duality Theory And the Consistent Estimation Of Technological Parameters: Why Cost Function Estimation Can Be Wrong

McIntosh, James; Sims, William A. - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 1997

In this article we show that technological parameter estimates obtained by estimating a cost function that is derivable as the dual of a production function can be biased and inconsistent if the stochastic structure of the model arises from certain types of behavioural assumptions made about...

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Imposing Regularity Conditions on a System of Cost and Cost-Share Equations: A Bayesian Approach

Griffiths, William E.; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Cruz, … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1997

A problem with the use of flexible functional forms is that the estimated functions frequently violate the regularity conditions (eg, monotonicity, concavity) implied by economic theory. Sampling theory methods exist for imposing curvature conditions at all non-negative prices, but such methods...

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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies

Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike; Molburg, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

reducing emissions from each point source, it was felt necessary to design a method to generate cost functions for emission … regions. The objective of this study was to develop aggregate cost functions that relate the cost of SO2 emission reductions … source of data for the study. Cost functions were derived for forty emission regions. The functional forms that best fits …

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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies

Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

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Analysis of Hospital Production and Cost: Economies of Scale and Scope

Alba, Michael M. - 1995

Using full-information maximum likelihood on a cross-section sample of 65 hospitals from seven Philippine provinces, this paper jointly estimates a two-output transcendental logarithmic variable cost function and four share equations. Results comply with the inequality conditions and the...

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Analysis of Hospital Production and Cost: Economies of Scale and Scope

Alba, Michael M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1995

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Prices and factor demand in an endogenized input-output model

Kratena, Kurt - In: Economic Systems Research 17 (2005) 1, pp. 47-56

Generalized Leontief cost function) with the traditional input-output price model. The cost functions determine factor demands for …

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Input Coefficient Change Using Biproportional Econometric Adjustment Functions

Kratena, Kurt; Zakarias, Gerold - In: Economic Systems Research 16 (2004) 2, pp. 191-203

'along the column' stemming from factor input equations derived from production or cost functions. This paper combines these …

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