Scale economies, technical change and productivity growth in Japanese local telecommunications services

Japan and the World Economy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 305-320

  Nemoto, Jiro ^a   Asai, Sumiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital utilization; Japanese local telecommunications; Scale economies; Technical change; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036334513     PISSN: 09221425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0922-1425(02)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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