Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation

Nonparametric measures of scale economies and capacity utilization: An application to U.S. manufacturing

An economic measure of scale efficiency is the ratio of the minimum average cost to the average cost at the actual output level of a firm. It is easily measured by the ratio of the total cost of this output under the constant and variable returns to scale assumptions. This procedure does not identify the output level where the average cost reaches a minimum. This paper proposes a nonparametric ...

Measures of service utilization.

There has been considerable progress in the development of quantitative and qualitative measures of substance abuse treatment over the past two to three decades. Early treatment outcome research often approached treatment as a “black box.” Reports typically indicated only that study subjects were enrolled in a particular service modality, such as inpatient, residential, therapeutic community, o...

Direct and Indirect Measures of Capacity Utilization: A Nonparametric Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing

We measure the capacity output of a firm as the maximum amount producible by a firm given a specific quantity of the quasi-fixed input and an overall expenditure constraint for its choice of variable inputs. We compute this indirect capacity utilization measure for the total manufacturing sector in the US as well as for a number of disaggregated industries, for the period 1970-2001. We find con...

Traditional Measures of Hospital Utilization

AUTHORS Evan Fieldston, MD, MBA, MSHP1,2,3,4,5, Meera Ragavan, BSE, BA2, Bhuvaneswari Jayaraman, MPH2, Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD5,6, Susmita Pati, MD, MPH5,7 1Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2Division of General Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3PolicyLab, The Children...

Measures of Op-Code Utilization