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Measuring Returns to Scale in the Aggregate, and the Scale Effect of Public Goods

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  • Starrett, David A, 1977. "Measuring Returns to Scale in the Aggregate, and the Scale Effect of Public Goods," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 45(6), pages 1439-1455, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecm:emetrp:v:45:y:1977:i:6:p:1439-55
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    8. Kaoru Tone & Biresh Sahoo, 2006. "Re-examining scale elasticity in DEA," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 145(1), pages 69-87, July.
    9. Podinovski, Victor V. & Førsund, Finn R. & Krivonozhko, Vladimir E., 2009. "A simple derivation of scale elasticity in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 197(1), pages 149-153, August.
    10. Bjurek, Hans & Hjalmarsson, Lennart & Forsund, Finn R., 1989. "Productivity Change in Public Service - The Case of Swedish Social Insurance Offices," Working Paper Series 253, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
    11. Podinovski, Victor V., 2017. "Returns to scale in convex production technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 258(3), pages 970-982.
    12. Podinovski, Victor V., 2019. "Direct estimation of marginal characteristics of nonparametric production frontiers in the presence of undesirable outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 279(1), pages 258-276.
    13. Olesen, O. B., 1995. "Some unsolved problems in data envelopment analysis: A survey," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(1-2), pages 5-36, April.
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    15. Tone, Kaoru & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2005. "Evaluating cost efficiency and returns to scale in the Life Insurance Corporation of India using data envelopment analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 261-285, December.
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    17. Bert Balk & Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis, 2015. "On directional scale elasticities," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 99-104, February.
    18. Finn Førsund & Lennart Hjalmarsson & Vladimir Krivonozhko & Oleg Utkin, 2007. "Calculation of scale elasticities in DEA models: direct and indirect approaches," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 45-56, October.
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    20. Patrizii, Vincenzo, 2020. "On network two stages variable returns to scale Dea models," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).

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