What does MES stand for?

Minimum Efficient Scale (economics)

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This belief is best rationalized by appealing to the fixed costs for a publisher to print a new title, implying a minimum efficient scale of production.

The myth of copyright inefficiency: has the standard textbook model ...

In other areas, we believe A&L lacks the minimum efficient scale to be competitive.

Alliance & Leicester gets a savaging

The result was a fragmented production system with severe overcapacity in auto production nation-wide, characterised by production at levels below minimum efficient scale in each province.

The impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity of ...

For this reason, ventures with a high minimum efficient scale are not good grazing grounds for the nonprofit, for they will not be able to scale up sufficiently quickly to make the venture work.

Nonprofit ventures: the good ones are profitable. (Notes from NCNE)

The critical feature of capital-intensive components, on the other hand, is that they contained the highest level of minimum efficient scale and initial capital investment.

NATIONAL CULTURE AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS: A STUDY OF THE ...

However, such regulation is costly since it increases the minimum efficient scale by which insurance firms can operate in the insurance market.

The impact of regulations on insurance firms and consumers

Compare that to a recent estimate that the minimum efficient scale of a new integrated steel facility is 6 million tons.

Up from the ashes: the rise of the steel minimill in the United States

The minimum efficient scale of an Internet content provider is likely very low, and whatever foreclosure there is would not be enough to prevent the content provider from reaching its minimum efficient scale.

Net neutrality: a radical form of non-discrimination: regulators ...