Multiproduct outputs and scale economies in electric power production: Some new estimates

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-76

  Berry, Dan M ^a   Mixon Jr , Franklin G ^b  

^a Nevada Public Utilities Commission   (United States)

^b Department of Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Electric power production; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY;

EID: 0032869599     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007761311872     Document Type: Article

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