scholarly journals Short-Run Cost Minimization and Capacity Utilization of Regional Public Hospitals in South Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Mok Kang ◽  
Moon-Hwee Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cost Minimization ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Short Run

scholarly journals Input cost, capacity utilization and substitution in the short run

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Delgado ◽  
Jordi Jaumandreu ◽  
Ana Martín Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Input Cost

scholarly journals Roles of Political and Economic Environments on Agricultural Commodity Import Demand in Developing Economy: A Case Study of Rice Sub-Sector in Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Sunday B. Akpan ◽  
Glory E. Emmanuel ◽  
Inimfon V. Patrick
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Import Demand ◽  
Nominal Exchange Rate ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
World Price ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Industrial Capacity

<p>Nigeria is currently the largest importer of milled rice in the world. The country has implemented several trade policies, set up institutions and incentives to boost domestic production with the intention to meet both domestic and international demands. Despite these attempts and favorable climatic, manpower and edaphic conditions in the country, Nigeria still spent millions of dollars on annual basis on rice imports. Based on this assertion, the study rather examined the roles of political and economic environments on rice import demand from 1960 to 2014 in Nigeria. Time series data were obtained from FAO, Central Bank of Nigeria and National Bureau of Statistics as well as World Bank. Augmented Dickey-Fuller-GLS unit root test showed that all series were integrated of order one. The long-run and short-run elasticity of rice import demand were determined using the techniques of co-integration and error correction models. The trend in rice import revealed that, the country had witnessed significant average positive exponential growth rate of about 15.975% in rice import from 1960 to 2014. The empirical results revealed that, the long run import demand function of rice responded negatively to the world price, industrial capacity utilization, nominal exchange rate, and the value of gross domestic production; whereas, it reacted positively to period of civilian rule, nominal value of external reserve, period of liberalization and the net volume of credit to the entire economy. The symmetric adjustment coefficient of rice import demand to a long run equilibrium stood at 39.65% per annum. In the short run, rice import had a significant negative and elastic relationship with the domestic and world price of rice; while it has significant positive inelastic association with external reserve and net credit to the economy. Based on these results; it is recommended that, the Nigeria government should designed programmes and incentives to boost industrial capacity utilization in the country. Markets determine nominal exchange rate should prevail in the economy. The country should regulate its foreign reserve policy by setting a threshold, above which excess deposit should be plough back to the domestic economy inform of investments rather than support excessive importation.</p>

scholarly journals Cross-Country Stock Market Integration and Portfolio Diversification Opportunities Evidence from Developed, Emerging and Frontier Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sultan Salahuddin ◽  
Muhammad Kashif ◽  
Mobeen Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Portfolio Diversification ◽  
Stock Market Integration ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Low Correlation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Cross Country

This study examines the stock market integration in cross-regional countries of developed, emerging, and frontier markets based on low correlation. The objective of the study is to identify the diversification opportunities and link between correlation and integration among country-level stocks. For this purpose, we select 62 countries from all three classifications of developed, emerging, and Frontier Markets. We constructed portfolios by selecting least 5 correlated countries denoted with Pjt in which each country has a correlation of less than .10 with base country Pit. Thirty-two countries fulfill the criteria of low correlation; 7, 13 and 12 from developed, emerging and frontier markets, respectively. Panel co-integration and VECM are applied to test the stock market integration and long & short-run linkages between country-level portfolios designed based on low correlation criteria. After conditioning for oil price movements, S&P 500 and exchange rate, we found Canada, France and Germany from developed category; Chile, Colombia, Greece, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan and Philippine from emerging category; and Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sri Lanka from frontier category have long-run diversification opportunities. Countries including; Canada and Italy from developed category; Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico and the Philippine from emerging category; and Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia from emerging category have short-run diversification opportunities.

Macroeconomic performance under evolutionary dynamics of employee profit-sharing

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-615
Author(s):  
Gilberto Tadeu Lima ◽  
Jaylson Jair da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Employee Compensation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the impact on capacity utilization and economic growth as variables driven by effective demand of income distribution featuring the possibility of profit-sharing with workers. Firms choose to compensate workers with either a base wage or a share of profits on top of this base wage. In accordance with robust empirical evidence, workers in sharing firms have higher productivity than workers in non-sharing firms. The distribution of employee compensation strategies and labor productivity across firms is evolutionarily time-varying. Two major results carrying relevant theoretical and policy implications are obtained. First, heterogeneity in employee compensation strategies across firms (and therefore earnings inequality across workers) may emerge as a long-run equilibrium outcome. Second, beyond the short run, a higher fraction of profit-sharing firms may result in either higher or lower rates of capacity utilization and economic growth.

scholarly journals Economic Effects of a Ban Against Antimicrobial Drugs Used in U.S. Beef Production

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Cost Minimization ◽  
Consumer Surplus ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Antimicrobial Drug ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Antimicrobial Drugs ◽  
Price Increases ◽  
Short Run

Economic effects for three scenarios of antimicrobial drug use in livestock production—a no-ban scenario and two levels of bans—are examined through cost minimization and a partial equilibrium analysis. Results indicate that regulating antimicrobial drug use in livestock production would increase per-unit costs of producers previously using drugs and reduce beef supplies in the short run, reducing consumer surplus. Producers not previously using drugs would benefit from short-run price increases.

scholarly journals Financial Development and Manufacturing Performance: The Nigerian Case

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekundayo Mesagan ◽  
Ndubuisi Olunkwa ◽  
Ismaila Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Domestic Credit ◽  
Short Run

AbstractThe study focused on financial sector development and manufacturing performance in Nigeria over the period of 1981 to 2015. In the study, three indicators such as manufacturing capacity utilization, manufacturing output and manufacturing value added were employed to proxy manufacturing performance while money supply as a percentage of GDP, domestic credit to the private sector and liquidity ratio were employed to proxy financial development. The study observed that credit to the private sector and money supply positively but insignificantly enhanced capacity utilization and output, but negatively impacted value added of the manufacturing sector in the short run. There is slight improvement in the long where both money supply and credit to private sector exert positive impact manufactured output. Hence, it becomes crucial for commercial banks to make available certain percentage of their profits for industrial expansion in order to create linkages between both sectors.

scholarly journals Naive Forecast for COVID-19 in Utah Based on the South Korea and Italy Models-the Fluctuation between Two Extremes

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fares Qeadan ◽  
Trenton Honda ◽  
Lisa H. Gren ◽  
Jennifer Dailey-Provost ◽  
L. Scott Benson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The South ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

Differences in jurisdictional public health actions have played a significant role in the relative success of local communities in combating and containing the COVID-19 pandemic. We forecast the possible COVID-19 outbreak in one US state (Utah) by applying empirical data from South Korea and Italy, two countries that implemented disparate public health actions. Forecasts were created by aligning the start of the pandemic in Utah with that in South Korea and Italy, getting a short-run forecast based on actual daily rates of spread, and long-run forecast by employing a log-logistic model with four parameters. Applying the South Korea model, the epidemic peak in Utah is 169 cases/day, with epidemic resolution by the end of May. Applying the Italy model, new cases are forecast to exceed 200/day by mid-April, with the potential for 250 new cases a day at the epidemic peak, with the epidemic continuing through the end of August. We identify a 3-month variation in the likely length of the pandemic, a 1.5-fold difference in the number of daily infections at outbreak peak, and a 3-fold difference in the expected cumulative cases when applying the experience of two developed countries in handling this virus to the Utah context.

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