The focus of the Japanese local telecommunications policy is moving toward how to solve the problem of the digital divide that accompanies the spread of high-speed and broadband services. This paper estimates the translog cost function of two outputs, the standard telephone service and the leased circuit service, and measures the regional gap of those stand-alone costs and incremental costs. Th...

The objective of the present Position Paper is to identify the major theoretical and practical developments dealing with Airport Capacity and Efficiency optimisation and improvement. Furthermore, it is within the scope of this document to identify and present in detail the major institutional and organizational issues associated with Airport Capacity and Efficiency and specify the existing perc...

Based on stochastic frontier analysis and translog input distance function, this paper examines the total factor energy efficiency of China’s industry using input-output data of 30 subindustries from 2002 to 2014, and decomposes the changes in estimated total factor energy efficiency into the effects of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change and inputmix effect. ...

Using a newly constructed data set on outward FDI from Germany, comprising both parent and affiliate panels for the period 1989-2001, this paper studies the location choice of German parents and consequences for labor demand across locations. Results indicate that large, relative skill abundant countires attract German FDI. Firms in skill-intensive industries seek skilled labor in their foreign...

This paper extends the existing research on real estate investment trust (REIT) operating efficiencies. We estimate stochastic-frontier, panel-data models specifying a translog cost function. The specified model updates the cost frontier with new information as it becomes available over time. The model can identify frontier cost improvements, returns to scale, and cost inefficiencies over time....

air pollution is an example of a negative externality; it imposes harmful effects and costs on people other than polluters. in controlling air pollution, efficiency argument implies that, there is a rolefor the government to play. studies show that taxation of fuels can be a powerful indirect instrumentfor controlling air polluticn because of the association between fuels use and emissions. in ...

This study reports the results of farmers’ production via irrigation resources utilization and efficiency parameters technical allocative by way sustainable environmental economics. The hypothesis is that factors affect in scheme as Data from cross section panel data were used then productivity measurement function are outlined two scenarios: first, report such output elasticity determine ineff...

A primal index of productivity change is introduced which decomposes exactly in three components: technical change, technical efficiency change and average scale economies (radial scale change). The proposed index is invariant to movement along indifference surfaces and it collapses to the Malmquist index if the technology is locally constant returns to scale. It is the best linear approximatio...

In the early 1990s, Taiwan began her deregulation trend in order to enhance competition and economic efficiency across all industries. We derive a theoretical framework to predict possible rankings in technical efficiencies of public, mixed, and private banks. A panel data set with 43 Taiwanese banks during 1997-1999 is used for empirical analysis. We then apply a translog distance function to ...