Abstract Milkfish, Chanos chanos, is often cultured with white shrimp, Penaeus indicus , to maintain ecological stability and increase profits. This study uses the outputs cost data of 169 milkfish farmers in Taiwan for years 2018 2019 applies translog function modeling analyze production scale economy input–input demand combinations two stocking densities (<10,000, ≥10,000 fry/ha) fry sizes...

This paper presents an analysis of technical efficiency and technology gap ratio (TGR) in greenhouse cucumber in Fars Province, Iran. Cucumber production was chosen for this study for the reason that greenhouse productions in this provincemainly have focused on this product. The data used in this study was obtained from a random sample of 127 greenhouses in Fars Province for 2010 to 2011. Metaf...

The soundness and efficiency of banks is one of the important subjects that neglecting it can have adverse consequences for every country's economy. For economies depending on the money market, such as the Iran economy, this subject is more critical. Therefore, in this study, using panel data related to 16 Iranian banks for the annual period of 2010-2017, the economic efficiency was determined ...

one of the topics after two decades of applying import substitution policy in iran manufacturing sector is the importance of industrial export expansion and foreign relations. the main impetus to this policy transfer is the market expansion and potential gains of exploiting the economies of scale and technical upgrades. based on this argument this research estimates the efficient scale and gain...

This paper explores empirical linkages between credit unions’ (CUs’) policies and their financial perfomance, as measured by loan delinquency and profitability, using a unique micro dataset of credit unions in three Latin American countries. The estimated translog profit function is generalized using a slack variable concept that parameterizes any systematic deviation from profitmaximizing beha...

In this paper, I emphasise that the main prediction of the theoretical literature on the firm as an incentive structure is that different organisations (i.e. firms with different allocations of property rights) are characterised by different levels of social transaction costs, hence by different levels of economic inefficiency. I then propose a test of this prediction focusing on the banking in...

The aim of this study was to measure the potential of production and the capacity used in the pharmaceutical industry. Capacity use is the actual production rate to the potential output, which reflects the gap between actual production and production capacity. Through econometric methods, translog cost function in the short run along with functions of share cost of production factors is estimat...

One of the topics after two decades of applying import substitution policy in Iran manufacturing sector is the importance of industrial export expansion and foreign relations. The main impetus to this policy transfer is the market expansion and potential gains of exploiting the economies of scale and technical upgrades. Based on this argument this research estimates the efficient scale and gain...