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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Translog"”.
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Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing
This paper presents a translog model designed to estimate the elasticity of substitution between capital, non-production workers, and production workers using U.S. manufacturing data for the period 1988 to 1997. The elasticity of substitution estimates derived from the translog model suggest that …
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Efficient Bundling and Unbundling of Hospital Services: An Examination of Scale and Scope Economies in the Hospital Industry
… three separate multiproduct cost functions (the translog, the hybrid translog, and the CES translog) as measured over eight output groups defined by the DRG classification scheme. The results support the unbundling of such services as diseases and disorders of the eyes, but indicate no cost …
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Technical Change, Market Structure and Intraindustry Trade Specialization: A Study of the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
… measure technical change. Chapter three uses a translog index to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth across manufacturing sectors in Colombia for 1970--1995 period. The specific application takes into account the correction by improvements in quality of inputs, in which aggregate …
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Hospital Cost Functions and Quality
… forms are compared: the Cobb-Douglas and the translog. The results of this study demonstrate that quality has a significant impact on costs. This relationship is positive meaning increasing quality will also increase the cost of producing hospital care. The results for scale economies …
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Scale economies in college and university student health centers: An econometric analysis
… is greater than {dollar}1 billion annually. A translog cost function is employed to analyze data from a random sample of 80 American College Health Association member institutions across the country. The results indicate that there are economies of scale in the production of student health care …
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Competitiveness of Virginia dairy producers in a national setting given changing marketing and policy conditions
… of production in the NDM is determined with a translog cost function. The cost functions are estimated with data collected in the 1989 and 1993 dairy versions of the Farm Costs and Returns Survey (FCRS). The supply and demand information in the NDM is annual data for 1994. Transportation costs …
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AN APPLICATION OF A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TO FOREIGN TRADE: THE CASE OF SRI LANKA
… changes. A more flexible functional form--translog--is also used.</p><p>This study utilizes the translog approach but exceeds previous applications by including endogenous technological changes as well as exogenous technological changes in the model. Application of the model yields several …
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Analysis of factors influencing the technical efficiency of smallholder maize farmers in northern province, Zambia
… a stochastic production function with a translog functional form was developed. The model included four characteristics related to the farms and farmers, as well as three institutional variables, all of which were found to be statistically significant. The efficiency levels observed …
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Productivity analysis of private and socialized agriculture in Ethiopia
… functional form between the Cobb-Douglas and translog production functions. The Translog functional form was selected for the analysis on the basis of statistical tests. Results of the analysis suggest that the producer cooperatives collectively appear to have a potential to generate increased …
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Costos del transporte colectivo y rendimientos a escala caso: área metropolitana de Mendoza
… ello se estima una función de costos de tipo translog usando datos de panel para las empresas operadoras del servicio mediante ómnibus, en el período 2005 - 2012. De este modo se busca dar respuesta a un aspecto de la problemática del transporte colectivo urbano. Se intenta: mejorar la …
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Intangible resources and organization capital: measurement and economic evaluation
… functional specifications (Cobb-Douglas and Translog) - that measures OC contribution to firm output and profitability. Results are robust and confirm the importance of OC for firm performance.
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Estimating the marginal value of agricultural irrigation water: A methodology and empirical application to the Berg River Catchment
… in the Berg Water Management Area (WMA), using a Translog functional form, Tobit censored regression model, including controls for heterogeneity, and accounting for heteroscedasticity. The estimates are obtained for 16 irrigated crops in the region and range from an overall mean of 4.84 R/m³ for …
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Essays in the macroeconomics of production sale
… a U-shaped average-cost curve. Estimating a translog production function, I show that SG\&A plays a central role in understanding firm-level scale economies. Chapter 3 builds on these measurement insights by embedding heterogeneous firms into a dynamic general equilibrium model with …
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ESTIMATION OF UNITED STATES IMPORT DEMAND AND EXPORT SUPPLY IN A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL, USING HUMAN CAPITAL AND R & D AS FACTORS OF PRODUCTION (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT)
… is to eradicate this omission and to use a translog profit function to estimate all input-output own and cross price elasticities as well as elasticities of transformation, complementarity and intensity for the United States economy when imports, human capital, R & D, non-human capital and …
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A CGE Analysis of the Employment Double Dividend-Hypothesis : Substitution Patterns in Production, Foreign Trade, and Labour Market Imperfections
… are estimated using a non-nested and a nested translog cost function. Sensitivity analyses with respect to substitution elasticities show that the CGE model produces an EDD for all parameter choices considered. This is mainly due to tax shifting processes towards capital income and the foreign …
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Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini
… Analysis technique, the Cobb-Douglas and the Translogarithm production functions were used to estimate technical efficiency scores. The results of the study showed that the sugarcane FCs are operationally self-sustainable, with an average technical efficiency of 83.69% (Translog) and 73.01% …
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Essays on the restructuring of the electricity industry in the United States
… marginal costs. It is further shown how the translog cost function can be used in the traditional solution of the Cournot model. Major empirical findings include marginal cost functions of every producer and forecast prices of electricity after deregulation in all the NERC regions of the …
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RELATIVE IMPACT OF NATIONAL AND FOREIGN SAVINGS IN THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF SENEGAL
… of the single equation models and we propose a "translog" model which allows us to compute the elasticities of substitution between national and external savings. The empirical evidence shows that the elaticities were positive, low and stable for Senegal during the period of study. The positive …
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ESTIMATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA
… panel stochastic frontier model using a translog production function. Our results provide fresh evidence on the existence of a significant negative association between gender wage gap and predicted technical efficiencies of firms. Further subdividing the manufacturing sector into four …
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Essays on international trade and Bayesian forecasting
… functions. These conditions are imposed on the translog, and it seen that forecasting results are improved as a result. This leads to an important conclusion: economic theory matters in empirical work. While the constant scrutiny of theory will never conclude, this dissertation attempts to …
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