In this paper, we present calculations of the economic gains in terms of reduced costs by exploiting scale-economies in dairy production in Norway, and the effect this would have had on the number of farms. We also explore whether or not optimal scale and unexploited scale-economies change over time due to scale-augmenting technical change. The analysis is based on homothetic cost functions est...

The complicated process of public forest land allocation involves competing economies of scale. While harvesting cost economies of scale may benefit harvesters, where average costs decline as contiguous harvested acreage increases, larger harvested areas can generate diseconomies in terms of environmental and ecosystem damage. This paper extends existing timber rotation models to more completel...

The presence of economies of scale has been often taken for granted in the discussion of many eGovernment implementation issues. This paper discusses this assumption by showing that empirical evidence in favor of economies of scale may be considered context dependent. Although the analysis carried out does not lead to discard the presence of economies of scale in the provision of eGovernment se...