Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "Cost function"

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    • A Bayesian quantile regression model for insurance company costs data 

      Sriram, Karthik; Shi, P.; Ghosh, P. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)
      We examine the average cost function for property and casualty insurers. The cost function describes the relationship between a firm's minimum production cost and outputs. A comparison of cost functions could shed light ...

    • A Bayesian quantile regression model for insurance company costs data 

      Sriram, Karthik; Shi, Peng; Ghosh, Pulak (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015)
      We examine the average cost function for property and casualty insurers. The cost function describes the relationship between a firm's minimum production cost and outputs. A comparison of cost functions could shed light ...

    • Markup and efficiency of Indian banks: an input distance function approach 

      Das, Abhiman; Kumbhakar, S.C. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      This paper examines market power and efficiency in Indian banking using a unified theoretical framework based on the primal approach. Empirical results show that due to high level of concentration, large banks hold the ...