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Efficiency, and economies of scale and scope in Japanese agricultural cooperatives
The purpose of this study is to investigate regional differences in the business characteristics of Japanese agricultural cooperatives (JAs), which...
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Economies of Scale in the Real Estate Mutual Fund Industry
This paper investigates the role of scale in Real Estate Mutual Fund (REMF) performance. We test the impact of both fund-level and industry-level...
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Gender, Economies of Scale and Poverty
This chapter investigates whether the gender of the head of the household affects the level of food consumption economies of scale achieved by...
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Free Trade Agreement, Upgrading Quality, and Economies of Scale
The production of high-quality products is often seen as a prerequisite for successful export and economic development. Quality inputs are needed to...
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Economies of Scale and Consolidation Effects in the Japanese Sewerage Industry
This chapter evaluates economies of scale and the effects of the consolidation of sewerage operators in Japan. We estimate the translog input...
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Competition, External Economies of Scale, and Unionized Wage
We provide a rationale for the mixed relationship between product market competition and unionized wage, and more importantly, for a generally...
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Economies of Scale and Cumulative Causation
This paper examines ‘Verddorn’s Law’, i.e. the relation between employment and output growth across the NUTS-3 regions of the European Union....
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Access to Electricity, Technology Adoption and Consumption Economies of Scale
This chapter examines, both theoretically and empirically, the role of domestic technology adoption, facilitated by electricity access in enhancing...
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Agglomeration economies and firm’s export intensity: evidence from Portuguese manufacturing SMEs
Export performance is a highly debated topic in the literature, with no consensus on how to measure it or what factors determine it. Most studies...
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Food Security, Home-Grown Food Consumption and Economies of Scale
Home-grown food plays an important role in enhancing food security in develo** counties. The analysis in this chapter reveals that there are...
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Spatial characteristics and dynamic modeling of informal economies
This study identifies the factors that describe informal economies and summarizes them into indices measuring informality. We use data from 189...
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Do exports enhance savings in the develo** economies? An analysis of Maizels’ hypothesis
The paper examines the effects of exports, alongside other relevant variables, on aggregate savings in develo** economies over 1980–2018 period....
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Analyses of University-Partnered Economic Development Initiatives and Minimum-Wage Policies Under Different Assumptions of Competition and Scale Economies
In this chapter we present general equilibrium analyses of economic development initiatives and minimum-wage policies that may be undertaken by a...
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‘Bargain your share’: the role of workers’ bargaining power for labor share, with reference to transition economies
The objective of the paper is to understand the role of workers’ bargaining for the labor share in transition economies. We rely on a share-capital...
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Inflation targeting and disinflation costs in Emerging Market economies
In this paper, we study whether adopting inflation targeting in emerging market economies affects the output costs of disinflation, controlling for a...
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Public debt and growth in Asian develo** economies: evidence of non-linearity and geographical heterogeneity
This paper examines the nonlinear effects of public debt on economic growth in Asian develo** economies through the application of panel...
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A hybrid neuro fuzzy decision-making approach to the participants of derivatives market for fintech investors in emerging economies
The risk profiles of investors play an important role in the success of derivative products investments. It is also necessary to determine the...
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Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation”
Successful catching-up economies tend to exhibit a set of properties: (i) rapid increases in skilled labor and R&D investment, (ii) industrial...
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Circular Performance of Small Open Economies
This chapter analyses the characteristics and adaptive features of small open economies; reviews and compares previous studies on circularity...
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Avoiding the Dutch Disease in tourism-led economies: reconciling tourism development and sectoral diversification
Although tourism has produced long-term growth and progress, the economic consequences of this economic specialisation, which is summarised by the...
