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Measuring Market Power in the Iranian Banking Industry According to the Boone Efficient-based Approach

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the structure of the Iranian banking system and to measure the market power factor based on the Boone approach. In this paper, we investigated the Iranian organized money market, including 18 banks operating in the period of 2008-2015. To calculate the marginal cost (MC), we used a Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function. Findings based on the ...

Measuring up to Medication Safety In Hospitals.

• the number of pharmacy profiles without patient allergy information for new admission orders. • the percentage of medication orders with “error-prone” abbreviations prohibited by hospitals. • the percentage of encounters in which two identifiers are not used to verify the patient’s identity before a drug is administered. • the time interval between prescribing and administering “stat” medicat...

Measuring Returns to Scale in Nineteenth-Century French Industry

Gross-output vs value-added production function. With the Cobb-Douglas form used by Sicsic (1994), increasing returns to scale in the value-added production function are equivalent to increasing returns to scale in the gross-output production function. The choice between value-added and gross-output production function is nevertheless not innocuous because returns to scale estimated from the va...

Measuring Line-up Fairness

The fairness of line-ups and photospreads is a traditional concern of research and policy development in the area of eyewitness identi®cation. Quanti®cation of fairness, the construction of fairness indices, and the development of evaluation procedures started in the 1970s and continues to this day. This paper reviews the historical development of the ®eld as an introduction to the articles tha...