The Translog Cost Function and Duality
Developing a Translog Cost Function for Pharmaceutical Distribution
... of cost function refers to an increase in the network size for an existing facility that is estimating percentage increase in cost by addition of another city in the network of a ...The cost ...
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Translog Cost Functions: An Application for Mexican Manufacturing.
... can exploit duality theory without imposing any limitation in the underlying technology. 2 More precisely, and according to Shepard (1970), there is a unique correspondence between the production and cost ...
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Household Food Security in a Subsistence Economy: Application of Translog Cost Function to Cross-sectional data in Vihiga District, Kenya
... 2 Western University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 190, KAKAMEGA, KENYA Abstract Vihiga, one of the poorest and densely populated districts in Kenya is perpetually food deficit (GOK, 2005). While food demand ...
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Economic Efficiency of Small Holder Cocoyam Farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria: A Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function Approach
... a translog stochastic frontier cost function to measure the level of economic efficiency and it’s determinants in small-holder cocoyam production in Anambra state, ...the cost-route approach. ...
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Is the Production Function Translog or CES? An Empirical Illustration Using UK Data
... i.e. Translog, whose estimated coefficients can be exploited to test whether the homogeneity and input (approximate) separability conditions maintained in a nested CES are satisfied by the ...the Translog ...
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Investigation of Japanese electricity industry using a CGE model of translog function
... The major contribution of this is to introduce flexible translog function in the CGE modeling of power generation sectors. However, there are some challenges to the improvement in this model in further ...
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EVALUATING BANKING PRODUCTIVITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USING THE TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTION
... It is therefore recommended that increased investments should be made in both capital and labour expenditure in information technology in order to increase the productivity of the banking sector in general. IMPLICATIONS ...
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Economic Efficiency of Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Vine Production in North Central, Nigeria: A Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function Approach
... a translog stochastic frontier cost function to measure the level of economic efficiency and its determinants in orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) vine production system in North – Central ...
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Duality theory and cost function analysis in a regional context: the impact of public infrastructure capital in the Greek Regions
... production function analysis, more recently has emerged the alternative analytical framework of duality theory and cost function ...important cost reduction ...
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Rice production structures in Sri Lanka: The normalized translog profit function approach
... This study attempts to estimate the output supply and input demand elasticities of rice production using the restricted normalized translog profit function for the four major paddy producing districts; ...
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The duality of macrophage function in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
... the duality of the roles of TAMs, in particular their pro-tumourogenic and immune-suppressive role in CLL as well as their role as immune effectors of therapeutic ...
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Cost Minimization and the Cost Function
... So far we focused on profit maximization, we could look at a different problem, that is the cost minimization problem. This is useful for some reasons: Different look of the supply behavior of competitive firms ...
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Economic Efficiency Of Fadama Telfairia Production In Imo State Nigeria: A Translog Profit Function Approach
... using Translog stochastic profit ...the function while t-test statistic was employed in testing their ...a cost saving of 42% in order to attain the profit status of the most economically efficient ...
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Seiberg duality, quiver gauge theories, and Ihara's zeta function
... Inspired by the graph version of the Riemann Hypothesis, We studied the distribution of poles of the Ihara zeta function along the Seiberg duality tree of the various theories, including the various del ...
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DUALITY IN MULTIOBJECTIVE FRACTIONAL PROGRAMING UNDER GENERALIZED UNIVEX FUNCTION
... Abstract: In this paper we introduced three approaches of nondifferentiable multiobjective fractional primal and dual programming problem involving square roots of positive semi definite quadratic forms. Necessary and ...
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Handling losses in translog profit models
... The translog functional form proved particularly suited for bank efficiency studies to facilitate convergence when maximizing the likelihood function (Berger and Mester, ...
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On The Duality Of Translator s Identity From The Perspective Of Economic Function Of Translation
... less cost and greater benefits are needed to maintain the virtuous circle of industrial economy and that more investment should be injected to maintain the sustainable development of the ...translation cost ...
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Cobb-Douglas, Translog Stochastic Production Function and Data Envelopment Analysis in Total Factor Productivity in Brazilian Agribusiness
... Cobb-Douglas, Translog Stochastic Production Function and Data Envelopment Analysis in order to estimate inefficiencies over time as well as respective TFP (Total Factor Productivity) sources for main ...
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Does Scale Matter in Profitability of Small Scale Broiler Agribusiness Production in Ghana? A Translog Profit Function Model
... lower cost of variable inputs for ...high cost of production with low profits for the farm ...profit function to determine marginal effect (Yusuf & Malomo 2007, Bandara & Dassanayake ...the ...
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On the problem of the software cost function
... marginal cost of all equations will ascer- tain if there are significant deviations from the linear ...quadratic function has been postulated as the most plausible candidate, based on the results of the ...
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