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Theories of scope

economics

Economies of scope
Combine two or more product lines in one firm
than to produce them separately. Cost
savings
Opportunity to exploit some type of excess
capacity.
Sharable costs of inputs to two or more product
lines are subadditive (i.e., less than the total
costs of providing these services for each
product line separately), the multiproduct cost
function exhibits economies of scope.
Nevertheless,

Referencias
Panzar, J. C., & Willig, R. D. (mayo de 1981).
Economies of Scope. Ninety-Third Annual Meeting
of the American Economic Association , 268-272.
Nemoto, J., & Furumatsu, N. (2014). Scale and
scope economies of Japanese private universities
revisited with an input distance function
approach. J Prod Anal (41), 213-226.
Keith, J., & Prior, D. (2014). Scale and scope
economies in Mexican private medical units.
Salud pblica de Mxico , 56 (4).

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