Economies of scale and scope in Australian telecommunications

This paper employs a composite cost function to examine the cost structure of Australian telephoneservices. The composite cost model combines thelog-quadratic input price structure of the translogmodel with a quadratic structure for multiple outputs. Quadratic output structures permit the measuremen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bloch, Harry, Madden, Gary, Savage, Scott
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. 2001
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28582