Economies of Scale and Economies of Scope
Econometric estimation of scale and scope economies within the port sector: a review
... Seaports provide multiple services to ships, cargo, and passengers. Size of the port and type of service are two key elements when deciding whether competition is feasible and how to promote it, or conversely regulation ...
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Economies of scale and scope in Australian telecommunications
... Of the 16 estimated coefficients, ten are significant at the five percent level. The first-order terms for the independent variables, with the exception of toll output, are significant at the 1% level. The estimated ...
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Economies of scale and scope in publicly funded biomedical and health research: evidence from the literature
... which economies of scale might arise in biomedical and health research include the abil- ity, as the scale of research activity grows, to make more efficient use of lumpy items of equipment or ...
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An analysis of costs in institutions of higher education in England
... of economies of scale and economies of scope vary according to the choice of estimating ...ray economies of scale and economies of scope are ...product-specific ...
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Economies of scope: context of agriculture, small family farmers and sustainability
... However, as global trade and business picked up in the 1970s (Jones, 1996, Nayak 2008), the industry magnates, policy makers and international agents of trade and commerce pushed forward the ideas of large scale ...
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The evidence base on college size and mergers in the further education sector
... Efficiency gains are often claimed for mergers, but OFT guidance warns that prospective efficiency gains are more easily claimed than achieved. Any potential efficiency gain must be shown to be merger-specific, and there ...
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Essays on banking
... Essays on Banking Table of Contents 11 Introduction Chapter One - Economies of Scale and Scope and Productive Efficiency in Portuguese Banking: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Approach 1.1.. [r] ...
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Setting the market free: deregulation of the bus industry. 4th Smeed Memorial Lecture, 29th October 1987.
... b Economies of scale and scope and user costs We have previously noted that in a truly contestable market the existence of scale or scope economies is no problem because immediate entry [r] ...
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Cost efficiency and economies of diversification of biogas fuelled cogeneration plants in Austria: a nonparametric approach
... of economies of diversification introduced by Chavas and Kim ...of economies of diversification by decomposition into a scale, convexity, complementarity and a fixed cost ...study, economies ...
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Too Small to Export: Firm Characteristics for Export Market Participation in Manufacturing Sector
... We have estimated two probit regressions with almost similar variable except one. In Model-I among other explanatory variables, we have incorporated female education as independent variables. Model-II has similar ...
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Causal Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Export: The Case of Developing Economies of Asia
... The foremost consideration for countries to engage in exports is to earn the foreign currency required for financing imports of goods and services from abroad. Exporting is also preferred for achieving economies ...
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Endogenous Scope Economies in Microfinance Institutions
... Given the bank’s core functions as a financial intermediary, most empirical studies of the per- formance of commercial banks apply the so-called “intermediation approach” when modeling their production technology. In ...
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Economies of scale in banking, indeterminacy, and monetary policy
... This paper investigates economies of scale (ES) in …nancial intermediation as a source of equilibrium indeterminacy. Consumption in the model can be purchased with currency and deposits, and ES in ...
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Testing Household Economies of Scale in Uzbekistan
... The results in Column 1 indicate that if we double household size (100% increase), budget share of food in overall expenditures will fall by 4.1%. Likewise, share of shelter will fall by 10.5% if we double the household ...
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Statistical Evaluation of the Equivalence Scale Based on Joint Accommodation for Households of the Russian Federation
... equivalence scale begins with an assessment of the Engel curve - the relationship between the cost of consumption of a certain group of products and the general level of ...equivalence scale are important ...
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Strategic Outsourcing under Economies of Scale
... with economies of scale in the production of α, D’s outsourcing to I imposes two opposite effects on the competition in the market ...of economies of scale, making I more ...
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Ashraf
... There’s no hotter topic in recent year’s review and portfolio, for the obvious, overwhelming reason that in the knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, talent will always be the scarcest of scarce resources. Above ...
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Undisciplined Economies
... Vestergaard associates the IFA initiative with a ‘post Washington consensus’. If the previous Washington consensus believed in the soundness of deregulation, free markets, and small government, the post Washington ...
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Article Delinquency and Default in USA Student Debt as a Proportional Response to Unemployment and Average Debt per Borrower
... We researched the response of the proportion of student borrowers with ninety or more days of delinquency or in default to variables such as unemployment and the average debt per borrowe[r] ...
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The location of European industry. Economic Papers No. 142, April 2000. ECFIN/318/00-EN
... In Sections 2 and 3 we drew out the broad trends of country specialisation and industry concentration, and offered descriptive material on the changing industrial characteristics of countries, and locational ...
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