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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Scale Economies"”.
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An Analysis of Scale Economies on Commercial Illinois Cash Grain Farms
… this study was to estimate the degree to which economies or diseconomies of scale exist on commercial Illinois farms. The analysis was conducted on both a before--and after--tax basis.
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Scale economies in college and university student health centers: An econometric analysis
This study estimates economies of scale for the provision of health care in college and university student health centers. Services at student health centers are available for approximately 10 million of the students enrolled in 1,500 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Estimated …
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Scope and Scale Economies for Multi-Product Firms: Microeconometric Evidence From Firm-Level Panel Data
Panel data show significant firm differences in output mixes and production efficiency. Finn-specific effects are found to be positive and significant. That is, technology of a firm that produces corn, soybeans and wheat can be different than one that produce only corn, or corn and soybeans. Even …
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Three Essays on Regional Economics
… the tension between regional competition and scale economies presented in a region where many firms produce the same (or related) good(s). Opportunistic behavior can lead clustering firms to suboptimal investment in human capital and scale economies eventually (partially) neutralize those …
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Hospital Cost Functions and Quality
… Also, this research estimates a value for scale economies in order to determine if the average hospital experiences increasing returns to scale in the production of hospital care, verifying such findings in previous econometric studies. Furthermore, two functional forms are compared: the …
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Efficient Bundling and Unbundling of Hospital Services: An Examination of Scale and Scope Economies in the Hospital Industry
… to determine which pairs of services exhibit economies or disconomies of scope. In addition, the literature concerning scale economies in the hospital industry has yielded conflicting results as to the optimal size for a hospital. Therefore, this research attempts to identify those pairs of …
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Essays in the macroeconomics of production sale
This dissertation examines how firm-level scale and associated cost structures shape aggregate economic outcomes, through three interconnected essays. Chapter 1 (with Luis Perez) develops a framework showing that the aggregate profit share can be decomposed into four summary statistics: …
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Measuring efficiency in the Clark County hotel casino industry
… all aspects of the production process, including economies of scale, renders this methodology far superior to the use of direct indexes. From calculations included in the study, I find that the technological and managerial efficiency declines for all hotel-casinos in the market when controlling …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… (Chapter 1), interest rates (Chapter 2), and scale economies (Chapter 3) -- inform the scope of exchange rates and tariffs. Unveiling these factors helps illuminate the nature of these shocks' influence. Chapter 1: The first chapter revisits the classic relationship between exchange rate …
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A study of regulatory goals and controls: firm size in the savings and loan industry
… than can small ones, our answer is that scale economies are not as easily demonstratable as others have concluded. Such economies turn out to be crucially dependent on the way in which they are specified in the cost function. An examination of the likely biases of each functional form …
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Measure of Global Specialization and Spatial Clustering for the Identification of "Specialized" Agglomeration
… natural advantages, internal, and external scale economies. The arbitrariness of partitions plays a key role in capturing these effects, while the selection of the partition would have to reflect the actual characteristics of the economy. Thus, the identification of spatial boundaries to …
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Bitcoin Protocol Analysis: Game Theory and Protocol Integrity
… over unbounded horizons and explains how scale economies in transaction validation, template management, and propagation yield the endogenous emergence of large mining entities. The thesis integrates formal modelling, comparative statics, and simulation to show how miner incentives evolve …
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Analysis of aluminum in auto body designs and its strategic implications for the aluminum industry
… the current macroeconomic conditions including scale economies and cost analysis of newer rolling technologies. The thesis then analyzes the cost of fabrication and assembly of four different aluminum car body designs compared with the conventional steel designs. The cost of the car design …
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The Pac-Man strategy : roll-up patterns and processes in three industries.
… consolidation of each include minimum efficient scale, economies and diseconomies of scale, and inspection and integration issues related to merger activity (Oster 1999).
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Business location in 1860 and 1870: Evidence from the manufacturing census
… 1870 and the likelihood of the presence of large-scale industrial enterprise. I have attempted to redirect the analysis of manufacturing development during the American industrial revolution away from strictly regional data aggregation to a more narrow geographic focus--the county. Specifically, I …
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An initial analysis of African Mutual Fund Fees and expenses
… size and mean TERs - indicating the presence of scale economies in African Mutual Fund families. All such findings are in line with empirical evidence presented by international studies. Consistent with other exploratory research, the paper includes a number of unexpected findings and …
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Two papers in supply chain design : supply chain configuration and part selection in multigeneration products
… reductions by exploiting the learning curve and scale economies. Unless companies can efficiently manage multiple generations of the product, there is a substantial risk that costs will spiral out of control. Focusing on supply chain design is one way companies can combat the problems caused by …
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A comparison on the execution of variables that determine successful mergers and acquisition activity in emerging markets : differences between emerging market multinational and developed market multinational corporations
… and the other on those from the developing economies (Buckley et al.2008). According to (Panond, 2007), internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Corporations (EMMNCs) has appeared in two waves, the first wave, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s viewed the …
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Corporate risk management practices: evidence from Croatian and Slovenian companies
… supports the informational and transactional scale economies argument that larger firms will be more likely to use derivatives. The analysis conducted to explore differences between risk management practices in Slovenian and Croatian companies has shown statistically significant evidence that …
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Extension of the Wilson railway station in Prague : administration and service buildings for the Czech railways
… of the adopted mass production process, based on scale economies and resource allocation. Their scale changes and the behavior towards the cities that by then surrounded them had become more alien. After the 1980s, however, the new concepts of lean production, flexibility and differentiation …
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