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Optimal taxation of a perfectly competitive firm with Cobb–Douglas production function as a bilevel programming problem
The paper formulates the problem of a government maximizing tax revenue in presence of profit maximizing perfectly competitive firm as a bilevel...
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Cobb–Douglas production function: on the causal effects of factors and predictions
Generalized Cobb–Douglas production function formulation is widely used in different many economic fields, not limited to the industrial area, and is...
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Determinants of technical efficiency among smallholder upland rice farmers in northern Uganda—a Cobb–Douglas stochastic frontier approach
In this paper, we estimate the technical efficiency levels among upland rice farmers in northern Uganda. A cross-sectional survey was conducted, and...
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Humanism Capital Value Function: Elements and Their Relations
This paper analyzes the classic “Cobb-Douglas production function” of production-oriented enterprises in seller’s market in industrial economy...
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Humanism Capital Value Function: Elements and Their Relations
This chapter analyzes the classic “Cobb-Douglas production function” of production-oriented enterprises in seller’s market in industrial economy...
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Technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in sesame production (Ethiopia)
Ethiopian smallholder farmers are lacking the technical skills required to make efficient use of available resources. This study aims to increase the...
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Estimating agriculture technologies’ impact on maize yield in rural South Africa
New technologies and digital infrastructures are enabling smart farming with high productivity levels across countries. Yet, there is dearth of...
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Parental bargaining and child health: a theoretical note
We attempt to determine how parental bargaining impacts the allocation of the family budget on child health. We developed a standard utility...
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An Analysis of the Production Efficiency of Ethiopian Airports
This study analyses efficiency of 13 domestic and international Ethiopian airports. It estimates the Cobb–Douglas production function using the...
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Responsible artificial intelligence for measuring efficiency: a neural production specification
In this paper, we develop a flexible neural production functional form to measure efficiency and productivity in the US food sector. By utilizing...
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Maritime infrastructure and growth: econometric measurement using panel data from Tunisia
This study applied a Cobb–Douglas production function in an attempt to assess the effect of increased maritime sector investment on economic growth....
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Overcoming barriers to technology transfer: empirical evidence from the German Democratic Republic
This paper provides empirical evidence on a special case of restricted technology transfer: the German Democratic Republic (GDR) characterized by a...
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Attack and Defense Strategies in Cyber War Involving Production and Stockpiling of Zero-Day Cyber Exploits
Two players strike balances between allocating resources for defense and production of zero-day exploits. Production is further allocated into...
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Efficiency Measurement in Special Production Stages
The preceding three chapters discuss how to measure the efficiency of a DMU based on the production frontier constructed from the peer DMUs. The...
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Axiomatizing additive multi-effort contests
A rent seeking model is axiomatized where players exert multiple additive efforts which are substitutable in the contest success function. The axioms...
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Estimation of technical efficiency of Indian farms for major crops during 2013–2014 and 2017–2018: a stochastic Frontier production approach
Indian agricultural landscapes can provide solid empirical evidences on the immensity of farmer efficiency levels in comparable countries with a...
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Simple efficiency-distribution models of production, with an application to robotics
The “efficiency-distribution” model introduced by Houthakker in 1955 offers a flexible approach to production theory that does not require the...
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Efficiency evaluation and influencing factors analysis of fiscal and taxation policies: A method combining DEA-AHP and CD function
This paper combines the Cobb-Douglas (CD)with the method of Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process(DEA-AHP) and applies it to the...
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Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?
This paper focuses on institutional influences on innovation efficiency across countries. Whereas various causes and effects of technological change...
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Firm-level productivity and its determinants in the Indian pharmaceutical industry
This study attempts to examine the total factor productivity (TFP) of Indian pharmaceutical industry across different sizes of firms, and to identify...
