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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Cobb-Douglas Production Function"”.
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Returns to scale in college and university student health centers: A Cobb-Douglas approach
This study examined returns to scale for the production of health services in college and university student health centers. Estimation was done using the Cobb-Douglas production function. The results of this study present evidence that supports the hypothesis of decreasing returns to scale across …
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The Rice Economy of Thailand: Supply, Demand and Price
… households as both producers and consumers. The Cobb-Douglas production function is used for production decisions, while the linear expenditure system and the linear logarithmic expenditure system are the basis for consumption patterns. Results from the consumption models indicate the elasticity …
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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change
… internal rate of return, the Mincer earnings function, the Cobb-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production function. Several topics relating to rates of return to higher education in Indonesia are also discussed. They include background comparisons of education and research and …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΡΘΡΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΒΑΤΟΤΡΟΦΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ, ΚΑΘΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΔΥΝΑΤΟΤΗΤΩΝ ΑΥΞΗΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΤΗΣ
AN EXAMINATION OF THE SHEEP PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF INCREASING ITS PRODUCTIVITY IN THESSALIA THROUGH A SAMPLE SURVEY INVESTIGATION. A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 200 SHEEP FARMS HAS BEEN STUDIED USING THE METHOD OF STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING. QUESTIONNAIRES AND RECORDS WERE …
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The influence of communications infrastructure on agricultural growth
… of communications infrastructure on agricultural production and the direction of technical change. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to estimate an inter-country production function for fifty developing countries over a fifteen year period, 1970 to 1985. The production function estimates …
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Impacts of foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity
… agricultural productivity. The study employed a Cobb- Douglas production function model. Several alternative model specifications were utilized in an attempt to model the true relationship between agricultural inputs and output. First, the foreign aid variable was included as a distributed lag of …
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ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΡΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ
… TOOLS WERE USEDIN THE DATA ANALYSIS: (I) A COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE LEVEL OF ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY OF RESOURCES, (II) A PROFIT FUNCTIONFOR DERIVING VALUES OF TECHNICAL AND PRICE EFFICIENCY FOR THE ENTIRE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, AS WELL AS IN ORDER TO DENTIFY …
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The impact of technological change on economic growth in the manufacturing sector of Korea
… regression and generalized least squares in the Cobb-Douglas production function. As expected, the results indicated that there is a significant relationship between technological change and output growth. A strong relationship was also found between Research and Development (R&D) and output …
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Impacts of investment in agricultural research on value-added for selected commodity groups
… to the commonly used aggregate output production function approach is to calculate returns based on estimates from a value-added production function. Value added is the value of consumed inputs in the production process subtracted from the value of total production. The value-added …
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Evaluating the impact of preferential markets on Eswatini SME economy
… employed, where the quantitative aspect employed Cobb-Douglas production function. LP being the dependent variable, the independent categorical variables were capital intensity, size of firm, qualification of directors, age of directors, proportion of revenue obtained from PTA, and dummy variables …
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Factors affecting productivity of small-scale sugarcane farmers in Mona and Sonkombo villages
… cane to Tongaat-Hulett mills. To identify the production challenges faced by small-scale sugarcane farmers in Mona and Sonkombo villages. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the farmers’ characteristics and their production challenges. The study showed that the majority (69%) of the …
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Inward foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from Vietnamese microdata
… characteristics and geographic regions. Using a Cobb-Douglas production function and a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator that takes account of firm-specific fixed effects, endogeneity, and simultaneity, we report that, overall, the share of foreign capital in firm equity has a …
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The impact of farm input subsidies on economic efficiency of maize production in Malawi
… stochastic frontier approach as and a Cobb-Douglas production function were applied. Yield responsiveness to production inputs was estimated by computing input elasticities. The findings indicate that technical efficiency of smallholder maize farmers ranged from 15.7 to 78.9 with a mean …
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Institutional quality in the finance-growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
… elasticity of substitution in addition to the Cobb-Douglas production function to not only relax the constraints but also check the robustness of the analysis. Total factor productivity is decomposed into two items: 1) pure technical progress; and 2) institutional quality linked efficiency …
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Territorial capital and firm performance: evidence from Italian regions
… of factor inputs is estimated using a Cobb-Douglas production function. The analysis then focuses on the relationship between TFP and a set of different territorial resources at regional level from 2004 to 2012. The qualitative analysis consists of 26 semi-structured interviews …
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Impact of Human Capital on Global Value Chains in Asia and Southeast Asian Region
… inputs to other countries along global production networks. For backward GVC participation, skills of workers seemed to be more important than education level in the GVC participation. We also find evidence that trade policies in form of tariff, free trade agreements and trade …
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Essays on Structural Transformation and Inequality
<p>Chapter 1: In this chapter, I replace the Cobb–Douglas production function in Acemoglu and Guerrieri (2008) with a two-sector model using the CES production technology to analyze how the U.S. capital deepening process must cause unbalanced growth. The U.S. economy is classified into labor- and …
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The impact of armed conflict on agricultural production the case of Libya: 1970-2017
… on its simplicity and ease of interpretation, a Cobb-Douglas style production function with Solow-Swan modification is used to characterize the agricultural sector. Though limited, data was collected from FAO and ILO on land, irrigation, fertilizer, machinery, and labor in Libya spanning from …
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Wage equations and the regional economics in Guatemala
… influence of public capital on productivity and production of non-agricultural firms located in different municipalities of the country. The research includes an analysis of the influence of neighboring effects of their economic conditions as regards labor market and public investment, a …
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Financial structure, economic growth and firm productivity in Sub Saharan Africa
… from 26 countries, the study employs a linear Cobb-Douglas production function to estimate total factor productivity (TFP.) It then uses both parametric and non-parametric methods to analyse the effect of financing choices on TFP. The results indicate that firms that rely on bank debt rather …
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