## Abstract This paper presents new estimates of scale economies for US hospitals. We show that the common translog specification of hospital costs is a misspecification, and employ nonparametric, local linear estimation with both continuous and discrete covariates. A bootstrap method is used to pr
An empirical investigation of returns to scale: The Welsh coal industry
✍ Scribed by Rolf Färe; Bong Joon Yoon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4207
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