Scale Economies
Mostrando 1-12 de 66 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Assessing the influence of the scale of operations on maintenance costs in the airline industry
AbstractThe aim of this study is to investigate whether the size of airline operations has any statistically significant effect on the costs of its aircraft maintenance. By investigating the impact of the extent of operations on unit costs of carriers, it was inspected the existence of economies of scale in providing maintenance services. Through an economet
J. Transp. Lit.. Publicado em: 2016-09
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2. ¿Qué es el neodesarrollismo? Una visión crítica. Argentina y Brasil
Argentina's neo-developmental trial was affected by the renunciation of a larger state appropriation of the income and by the unproductive subsidies to capitalists. Both the extractive profiles and the industrial imbalances were reinforced. Brazil did not face crises and rebellions on the same scale, and its economic policy has been more conservative. Neo-de
Serv. Soc. Soc.. Publicado em: 2015-06
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3. Demand aggregation and credit risk effects in pooled procurement: evidence from the Brazilian public purchases of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Pooled procurement has an important role in reducing acquisition prices of goods. A pool of buyers, which aggregates demand for its members, increases bargaining power and allows suppliers to achieve economies of scale and scope in the production. Such aggregation demand e ect lowers prices paid for buyers. However, when a buyer with a good reputation for pa
Publicado em: 12/09/2012
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4. Relação entre desempenho financeiro e desempenho social de instituições de microfinanças na América Latina / The relationship between financial performance and social performance of microfinance institutions in Latin America.
The present thesis aims to analyze the relationship between financial and social performances of microfinance institutions that operate in Latin America. Thus, the paper proposes, through the application of quantitative methods as tests of correlation and regression, an investigation about the relationship between variables related to social performance and
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 19/06/2012
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5. Economias de escala e de escopo na fixação de preços em marketing: estudo de caso no setor bancário / Economies of scale and scope in marketing pricing: a case study in the banking sector
In a globalized and dynamic environment such as the one we live in nowadays, where opportunities arise and advantages disappear very quickly, strategies, which are reflected in Marketing Management, must be agile in order to enable the connection between a company and the market. Such strategies are reflected in the decision of the marketing mix (4P\ s), in
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 25/04/2012
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6. Evaluating efficiency in the Brazilian trucking industry
The purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of efficiency in the Brazilian motor carrier industry using both DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) in a complimentary fashion. The study is based on secondary data collected from Transporte Moderno/Maiores e Melhores, a specialized magazine that annually reports statis
Prod.. Publicado em: 09/11/2012
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7. Identificación de constructos competitivos y estratégicos de las exportaciones de manzanas chilenas a los mercados asiáticos
The research analyzes the competitiveness of apples exportations from Maule's Region, Chile, toward Asian markets of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India. The objective was to identify competitive strategies and determine the most important competitive advantage variables. A bootstrap and a factor analysis of principal component analysis (PCA) were carried out
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura. Publicado em: 2012-06
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8. Long-term planning of a container terminal under demand uncertainty and economies of scale
Governments of many developing countries are presently granting concessions to private organizations to operate container terminals. A key element in this process is the technical and economic evaluation of the project. In practice, the demand levels over time are volatile. The first part of the paper deals with a capacity expansion problem with stochastic d
Pesquisa Operacional. Publicado em: 03/04/2012
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9. Benefícios de custos em empresas participantes de arranjos produtivos locais: um estudo em empresas do arranjo produtivo local de jóias folheadas de Guaporé/RS
The formation of Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APLs) is widespread in the literature as a potential competitive advantage of small and medium enterprises in the face of large corporations. Among the gains have been cited economies of scale, exchange of information, innovation and cooperation. In this context, the survey covers companies of the APL jewelery pla
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 15/12/2011
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10. Media piracy in emerging economies
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the study tells two overarching stories: one tracing the explosive growth of piracy as
Social Science Research Council. Publicado em: 2011
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11. Essays on the general equilibrium effects of barriers to trade on economic growth, foreign trade and the location of economic activity in Brazil
This work presents a fully operational interstate CGE model implemented for the Brazilian economy that tries to quantify both the role of barriers to trade on economic growth and foreign trade performance and how the distribution of the economic activity may change as the country opens up to foreign trade. Among the distinctive features embedded in the model
Publicado em: 16/04/2010
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12. Energy policy and regional inequalities in the Brazilian economy / Política energética e desigualdades regionais na economia brasileira
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate the long-run regional impacts of tariff policy of the Brazilian electric power sector. The structural reforms carried on this sector determined the emergence of two different spatial distribution trends of the electric power tariffs among the Brazilian states: one of convergence and another of spatial diverge
Publicado em: 2010