Inferring scope economies from the input distance function

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Journal: Economics Letters

Year: 2018

Volume: 172

Issue: C

Pages: 40-42

Authors (2)

Färe, Rolf (not in RePEc) Karagiannis, Giannis (University of Macedonia)

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Abstract

We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for scope economies is that the technical efficiency of the joint production process to be less than or equal to the weighted sum of the technical efficiencies of the individual activities.

Inferring scope economies from the input distance function

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