| Description |
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to the Conceptual Framework -- Traditional Productivity Growth Measurement -- The Short Run, Capital, and Capacity Utilization -- Short and Long Run Scale and other Cost Economies -- Internal and External Cost Economies, and Growth -- Market Structure and Economic Performance -- Regulatory Structure and Costs -- Technical Efficiency -- Underlying Theory and Implementation Issues -- Data Construction for Estimation and Measurement -- Issues of Econometric Implementation -- Pulling It Together |
| Summary |
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance is designed to provide a comprehensive guide to students, researchers or consultants who wish to model, construct, interpret, and use economic performance measures. The topical emphasis is on productivity growth and its dependence on the cost structure. The methodological focus is on application of the tools of economic analysis - the "thinking structure" provided by microeconomic theory - to measure technological or cost structure, and link it with market and regulatory structure. This provides a rich basis for evaluation of economic performance and its determinants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic indicators.
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Industrial efficiency -- Mathematical models.
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Industrial productivity -- Mathematical models.
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Microeconomics.
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| LC no. |
98048311 |
| ISBN |
0792384032 |
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