This paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesize that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we use data from the recently lib...

This paper decomposes the Malmquist productivity index into several assembling components: technical change (further break down into technical change magnitude, input bias and output bias), technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change, and output-mix effect. A translog output distance function is chosen to represent the production technology and each component of the Malmquist index is ...

This paper introduces a publicly available database of recorded translation sessions for Translation Process Research (TPR). User activity data (UAD) of translators behavior was collected over the past 5 years in several translation studies with Translog 1 , a data acquisition software which logs keystrokes and gaze data during text reception and production. The database compiles this data into...

in this project, first we introduced a general rule for the design of drying processes and then, we have applied microsoft excel for this purpose. belt dryer is one of the most common dryers in the food industry. in this study, our aim was to process carrot by this dryer. we optimized the target function (total annual cost or tac) and investigated the influence of design variables on this targe...

The current study deals with the technical efficiency of cotton farmers operating on Harran Plain Turkiye an application to two well-known stochastic approaches, i.e., Cobb-Douglas and translog frontier production functions. Using farm-level cross-sectional data, a specialized maximum likelihood technique incorporates both frontiers inefficiency effects models into single equation model estimat...

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission of the Executive Yuan promulgated fully amended Certified Public Accountant Act in 2007, which directly led to significant changes accounting law. From perspective economic theory law, this study investigates amendment resulting an increase or decrease overall revenue and different shares firms, puts forward measures that should be taken by firms stakeh...