Matthew Cobb is Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Manchester. He earned his PhD in Psychology and Genetics from the University of Sheffield in 1984, and spent most of his career in France. He specialises in insect behaviour, with a focus on chemical communication and the olfactory responses of Drosophila larvae. He recently co-edited Insect Taste and has translated a numb...

Some propositions related to about growth theory are not valid for all production functions. This is the case estimation of total factor productivity based on accounting’s approach which easily verified with a Cobb-Douglas function, but difficult obtain CES function. In this paper, we will try do that using Moroccan data.

Background: Hypercyphosis and vertebral deformity are related to vertebral fractures. There are no studies in chronic alcoholics. Objective: To analyse the relationship which exists between the Cobb angle and different degrees of vertebral deformity, and bone mass and various variables related to bone metabolism in chronic alcoholic patients. Material and methods: 57 alcoholic males aged 52 ± 1...

The agriculture sector is highly exposed to climate change and, consequently, to its risks. The climate risk is capable of altering other risks such as asset depletion (damage and loss to assets as a result of extreme climate events), price risks (risk of falling or rising prices) and financial risk (from possible increase of interest rates). Based on the assumption that climate changes indirec...

This paper constructs China’s capital stock, which is used in conjunction with a labor variable to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function for the Chinese economy. Two panels of data are used – one for capital formation and one for sources of investment finance. Both national and provincial data are used for these two panels, thus giving a total of four capital-stock series. The Cobb-Dougla...

for helpful comments on earlier drafts. All remaining errors and omissions are the author's. Comments and criticisms are welcome. ABSTRACT This paper estimates potential output using a number of statistical trend methods and a Cobb Douglas production function. Two measures of the output gap using the Cobb Douglas production function method are estimated. One measure models technology as a linea...

This article applies the Cobb/Douglas production function to measure synergy effects of a Public Social Private Partnership (PSPP) project. Following a short overview of the literature on Public Private Partnership and in particular on Public Social Private Partnership the microeconomic approach of the Cobb/Douglas production function is presented which can be interpreted in this context as a g...