The effects of operating and capital subsidies on total factor productivity: a decomposition approach.

A study is conducted to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) in public transit systems and to decompose it among subsidy effects, scale or output effects, and the rate of technical change by building on previous methods that distinguished between private costs and actual costs. Cross-sectional d...

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Publicado en:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 381 - 398
Autores principales: Obeng, Kofi, Sakano, Ryoichi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Southern Economic Association October 2000
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        Mathematical models of economics
        Subsidies
        Decomposition method
        Production functions (Economic theory)
        Bus lines
        United States
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          United States
          Mathematical models of economics
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          Decomposition method
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