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| Volume 6, No. 1,
April 2007 |
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Measuring Scale
Efficiency Change Using a Translog Distance
Function |
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Kostas Kounetas |
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Department of Economics,
University of Patras, Greece |
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Kostas Tsekouras |
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Department of Economics,
University of Patras, Greece |
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| Abstract |
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We derive a measure of scale efficiency
change in the case of a translog output-oriented, multi-input,
multi-output distance function without imposing restrictions in
previous analogous works by Ray (1998, 1999) and Balk (2001). This
may be particularly useful in productivity analysis based on the
Malmquist productivity index. |
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Key words:
most productive scale size (MPSS); scale efficiency change;
translog function |
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classification:
B41; D20; D21 |
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