Estimating economies of scope using the profit function: A dual approach for the normalized quadratic profit function

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 418-421

  Gao, Zhifeng ^a   Featherstone, Allen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality; Economies of scope; Normalized quadratic cost and profit function

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349099837     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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