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Applied Economics Letters Volume 19, 2012 - Issue 16
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Aggregation of scale elasticities across firms

Rolf Färe Department of Economics and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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Valentin Zelenyuk Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland, 530, Colin Clark Building (39), St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1593-1597 | Published online: 31 Jan 2012

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