Search Results - subject:"Scale elasticity"

Telecommunications infrastructure, telecommunications intensity and productivity growth in US industries: a disaggregated approach

Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Nandi, Banani; Chakraborty, Chandana - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2009) 2, pp. 186-210

This paper examines the productivity impact of telecommunications infrastructure and telecommunications intensity for 41 US industries over the period 1977 through 1999. A translog cost function that includes both telecommunications infrastructure and telecommunications equipment in its input...

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Productivity, Scale and Efficiency in the U.S. Textile Industry

Kouliavtsev, Mikhail; Christoffersen, Susan; Russel, Philip - In: Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 1, pp. 1-18

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Calculation of scale elasticities in DEA models: direct and indirect approaches

Førsund, Finn; Hjalmarsson, Lennart; Krivonozhko, Vladimir - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 28 (2007) 1, pp. 45-56

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Alternative Approaches to Estimate Returns to Scale in DEA- Models

Löthgren, Mickael; Tambour, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

-output technologies. Both qualitative scale efficiency-properties and quantitative scale elasticity-properties are covered. The estimation … propose an approach to estimate scale elasticity based on the primal efficiency problem. This alternative approach is derived … as a direct approximation of the differentials of the efficiency measures in the scale elasticity definition. The …

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Multilevel flexible specification of the production function in health economics

Grassetti, Luca; Gori, Enrico; Minotti, Simona Caterina - Dipartimento di Statistica, Università degli Studi di … - 2005

hospitals (as already seen in previous works), but also to draw some economic considerations about scale elasticity, scale … elasticities at ward level. Analogous results can be achieved for scale elasticity, which measures how output changes in response …

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Are all Scales Optimal in DEA? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Førsund, Finn; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 21 (2004) 1, pp. 25-48

Policy recommendations concerning optimal scale of production units may have serious implications for the restructuring of a sector. The piecewise linear frontier production function framework (DEA) is becoming the most popular one for assessing not only technical efficiency of operations, but...

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Rail cost functions and scale elasticities: a meta-analysis

Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2003

There is an abundance of literature on cost functions and economies of scale in the rail sector. Results from such studies are used in decisions on privatization, regulation and mergers. Different studies may, however, come to very different conclusions. In this paper we examine the results of...

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Are all scales optimal in Dea? Theory and empirical evidence.

Hjalmarsson, Lennart; Førsund, Finn R. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2002

Policy recommendations concerning optimal scale of production units often have serious implications for the restructuring of a sector, while tests of natural monopoly have important implications for regulatory structure. The piecewise linear frontier production function framework is becoming the...

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Calculating the scale elasticity in DEA models.

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2002

In economics scale properties of a production function is charcterised by the value of the scale elasticity. In the … common. The contribution of the paper is to apply the concept of scale elasticity from multi output production theory in … differences between scale elasticity values for the input- and output oriented projections and the range of values for efficient …

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Returns to Scale and Scale Elasticity in Farrell, Russell and Additive Models

Fukuyama, Hirofumi - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 16 (2001) 3, pp. 225-239

that identify the scale nature. Second, we compare these results with the scale elasticity results. Third, we present …

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