returns to scale
The importance of increasing returns to scale in the process of agglomeration in Portugal: A non linear empirical analysis
... Hanson, in 1998, taking into account the model of Krugman (1991) and the extent of Thomas (1997) this model, had a good theoretical and empirical contribution to empirically examine, with reduced forms, the relationship ...
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Verification of the Returns to Scale of Production Type for the Russian Federation Regions
... Abstract. Monte-Carlo methods to asses a statistical validity of the relationship between coefficients of time series regression model were proposed. In economics such a relationship is present in the case when constant ...
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The returns to scale analysis in the basic industry enterprises in the Slovak Republic
... The technical efficiency estimation could be done on the basis of the parametric methods of the Stochastic Production Functions (SFA) which were presented by Aiger et al. (1977) and the non-parametric methods of the Data ...
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Financial and Product Market Integration under Increasing Returns to Scale
... increasing returns in the manufacturing sector, it is assumed that firms producing the same manufactured good engage in Cournot ...increasing returns to scale in the financial sector, for each bank, ...
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A note on concavity, homogeneity and non increasing returns to scale
... non-increasing returns to scale, is increasing and quasiconcave, then it is ...decreasing returns to scale and if either it is increasing or if 0 is in its domain, then it is strictly ...
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Effect of uncontrollable factors on constant returns-to-scale production technologies
... constant returns-to-scale production technologies in data envelopment ...of scale efficiency and achieves model by the incorporation of variant inputs and outputs in data envelopment ...axiom ...
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Constant returns to scale and economic theories of value
... The three theories of value differ remarkably in other significant respects too. It is precisely these other differences – with normative implications – that make this simple matter of constant returns to ...
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The returns to scale effect in labour productivity growth
... constant returns to ...of returns to scale in the underlying technology, which captures the curvature of the production ...the returns to scale ...
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The role of NAFTA and returns to scale in export duration
... In this paper I investigate how the North American Free Trade Agreement has af- fected the members’ hazard of exports ceasing and how differences in returns to scale manifest themselves in the hazard of ...
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Kaldor Verdoorn’s law and increasing returns to scale: a comparison across developed countries
... increasing returns to scale is a macro phenomenon, since most of the economies of scale are a consequence of the increasing differentiation, of the introduction of new goods, and of new industries, ...
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A Slacks-based Measure DEA Methodology for Identification of Returns to Scale in the Slovak Banking Sector
... the scale elasticity of CSOBISTO, SBERBANK and UNI gradually increased in the direction of constant returns to scale, whereas POSTB, PRIMA as well as PRIVAT displayed a tendency to decrease their ...
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Estimating Returns to Scale in the Presence of Undesirable Factors in Data Envelopment Analysis
... estimating returns to scale of efficient DMUs in the presence of desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) input and output factors while the previous presented RTS approaches are incapable of estimating ...
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Indivisible labor supply and involuntary unemployment: Increasing returns to scale case
... In this paper we have examined the existence of involuntary umemployment using a mo- nopolistic competition model with increasing returns to scale. We have derived involuntary unemployment from ...
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Hydroponics Production Function, Returns to Scale and Domestic Resource Cost in Pakistan
... A positive value of coefficients of the Cobb Douglas production function indicates that the hydroponics production was increasing with an increase in input. This also indicates that the increasing use of respective input ...
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ESTIMATING RETURNS TO SCALE USING NON-RADIAL DEA MODELS
... Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric technique based on mathematical programming for the performance assessment of a set of decision making units (DMUs). Charnes et al. [6] and Banker et al. [2] presented ...
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The role of NAFTA and returns to scale in export duration
... In this paper I investigated how the North American Free Trade Agreement has affected the members’ hazard of exporting and how differences in returns to scale in production manifest themselves in exports of ...
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Estimated Returns to Scale with Interval Data in Parallel Manufacturing Systems with Shared Resources
... In parallel production systems with shared resources as shown in the previous section, when the data in the parallel production systems with shared resources is interval, the efficiency is interval too. So when the data is ...
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Technological returns to scale: Identification and visualization
... One of the most critical issues for using data envelopment analysis models is the identification of technological returns to scale (TRTS). Recently, the angles method based on data mining is introduced for ...
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Traditional comparative advantage vs increasing returns to scale: NAFTA and the GATT
... One immediate impl icat ion is that, under tradi t ional condi t ions, regional trade blocs which increase the market power of the market part icipants wi l l natural ly lead to tari ff [r] ...
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An Additive Model for Estimation Return to Scale in Regulated Environment with Quasi-Fixed Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
... 0 j=1,2,…,n Definition 5. All slacks at zero in the objective are a necessary and sufficient condition for full efficiency with model (7). In the next section, we will present our proposed approach for estimating RTS of ...
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