Download or read book Indirect Production Functions written by Ronald William Shephard and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indirect production functions written by Ronald W. Shephard and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A CES Indirect Production Function written by Boyan Jovanovic and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Production Economics written by Steven T. Hackman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly yet accessible book provides an introduction to the main topics in production economics. The book successfully integrates two historically distinct perspectives on modeling technology: from microeconomics and engineering.

Download or read book Multi Output Production and Duality Theory and Applications written by Rolf Färe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our original reason for writing this book was the desire to write down in one place a complete summary of the major results in du ality theory pioneered by Ronald W. Shephard in three of his books, Cost and Production Functions (1953), Theory of Cost and Produc tion Functions (1970), and Indirect Production Functions (1974). In this way, newcomers to the field would have easy access to these important ideas. In adg,ition, we report a few new results of our own. In particular, we show the duality relationship between the profit function and the eight equivalent representations of technol ogy that were elucidated by Shephard. However, in planning the book and discussing it with colleagues it became evident that such a book would be more useful if it also provided a number of applications of Shephard's duality theory to economic problems. Thus, we have also attempted to present exam ples of the use of duality theory in areas such as efficiency measure ment, index number theory, shadow pricing, cost-benefit analysis, and econometric estimation. Much of our thinking about duality theory and its uses has been influenced by our present and former collaborators. They include Charles Blackorby, Shawna Grosskopf, Knox Lovell, Robert Russell, and, not surprisingly, Ronald W. Shephard. We have also benefit ted over the years from many discussions with W. Erwin Diewert.

Download or read book Dynamic Indirect Production Functions written by Ronald W. Shephard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic framework is used for production correspondences in which n-vectors of input functions are taken from (L(From + to infinity) (to the Nth Power)), with components which are Lebesgue measurable, and bounded except for a subset of measure zero. With these parent correspondences, a cost-indirect and return-indirect production correspondence is formulated, using a weak star topology for (L(From + to infinity) (To the Nth Power)) which norms vectors of input functions in terms of the cost of a vector over a finite span (O, T), with vectors p of Lebesgue integrable price functions taken from (L(From + to 1)(To the NthPower)). The properties of these indirect production correspondences are developed, and special forms under homotheticity of structure are used to determine index functions for dynamic aggregate expression of direct and indirect production functions. (Author).

Download or read book Fundamentals of Production Theory written by Rolf Färe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graduate text develops production theory from a set of reasonable axioms. The theory is presented both in a primal and dual as well as in an indirect (constrained) framework. The basic model leads to a set of efficiency measures which can be readily employed in empirical work. A first draft of the text was used to teach students at Vanderbilt University. The text includes a variety of exercise problems.

Download or read book Estimation of direct and indirect production functions written by K. F. Field and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Production Economics A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications written by Melvyn Fuss and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to Economic Analysis: Production Economics: A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, Volume 2 focuses on the theory of production from the standpoint of the "dual", the relationships between economic observables which are dual to physical technology. The selection first ponders on duality, intermediate inputs and value-added, Hicks' aggregation theorem and the existence of a real value-added function, and homotheticity and real value-added in Canadian manufacturing. Discussions focus on real value-added and the production structure, estimation of the production structure, double deflation and real value-added, measurement of total productivity, and duality between direct and conditional indirect utility functions. The book then examines the estimation techniques for the elasticity of substitution and other production parameters and measurement of the elasticity of factor substitution and bias of technical change. The publication takes a look at the identification of technical change in the electricity generating industry, factor substitution in electricity generation, and the effectiveness of rate-of-return regulation. Topics include statistical tests of regulatory effectiveness, profit function for a regulated firm, tests of the structure of technology, identification problems in the measurement of technical change, and measurement of disembodied technical change. The selection is a valuable source of information for economists and researchers interested in production economics.

Download or read book Cost and Revenue Constrained Production written by Rolf Färe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic notion underlying this monograph - budget or revenue constrained models of production - we owe to Ronald W. Shephard, who recognized its fundamental importance in modeling behavior in a wide variety of settings including the service and public sector. Our endeavor here is to extend Shephard's earlier work in several directions while maintaining his axiomatic approach. Our contributions include an expanded set of duality results and a general bent toward empirical implementation: including various parameterizations, applications to efficiency and productivity measurement, and shadow pricing. We hope to provide those engaged in empirical work with some powerful and useful tools which have received relatively little attention. The nature of the material in this monograph is somewhat technical, however, the level of mathematical difficulty is standard. Although we have tried to keep the monograph fairly self-contained, we have also kept technical detail to a minimum in the body of the text. Many technical extensions appear as problems at the ends of Chapters. The reader is also referred to the notes at the end of each chapter for references to additional literature. A prepublication draft of this manuscript was used as lecture notes in a graduate course in production theory at the Department of Economics at Bilkent University. We thank our students as well as faculty members for their patience and interest. Special thanks go to Dean Togan, Zeynap Koksal and Ali Dogramaci for making our stay in Ankara not only productive, but also enjoyable.

Download or read book Production Frontiers written by Rolf Fare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and by measuring distances to them are able to develop a model of efficient producer behaviour and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. Linear programming is used as an analytical and computational technique in order to accomplish this. The approach developed is then applied to modelling producer behaviour. By focusing on the empirical relevance of production frontiers and distances to them, and applying linear programming techniques to artificial data to illustrate the type of information they can generate, this book provides a unique study in applied production analysis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government.

Download or read book Theory of Cost and Production Functions written by Ronald William Shephard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to his frequently cited Cost and Production Functions (1953), this book offers a unified, comprehensive treatment of these functions which underlie the economic theory of production. The approach is axiomatic for a definition of technology, by mappings of input vectors into subsets of output vectors that represent the unconstrained technical possibilities of production. To provide a completely general means of characterizing a technology, an alternative to the production function, called the Distance Function, is introduced. The duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems. The special class of production structures called Homothetic is given more general definition and extended to technologies with multiple outputs. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Materials Capital Direct indirect Substitution and Mass Balance Production Functions written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Production Functions written by Derek L. Bosworth and published by Farborough, Eng. : Saxon House. This book was released on 1976 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The johansen schema; An integrated system of production: comments and criticisms; The ex ante function; The ex ante function and the ex post micro function; Aggregate putty-clay functions; Agtregate neoclassical production functions; Neoclassical production functions: fact or fantasy? Production functions - some conclusions.

Download or read book Specification and Estimation of Multiple Output Production Functions written by G. Hasenkamp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is intended as a contribution to applied work in production theory by treating: a) The measurement problems involved whenever several outputs are jointly produced, and b) The (possible) econometric framework for estimating production function parameters whenever (relative) prices vary sufficiently over the observations. Thus, the "pure" theory of production, and the theory of non-linear regression is not treated in sufficient detail: for these topics we refer to the available literature~ for a comprehensive list of references we refer to Uebe (1975). Some years ago, papers by L. J. Lau and W. E. Diewert initiated my interest in duality within production theory, and then I started to appreciate R. W. Shephard's fundamental contribution to this topic. This monograph is a (minor) revision of a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, in August 1973. The Graduate School and the Social Systems Research Institute provided funds for the reported computer work, Lawrence R. Klein and Laurits R. Christensen provided data, and as a Graduate Student I received financial support in form of an University Fellowship~ all this is very much appreciated. With some nostalgia I think back to the enjoyable period of learning during the preparation of my diFosertation~ I appreciate the spirit within the department, and the guidance of my committee Arthur S. Goldberger, Dennis J. Aigner, and Laurits R. Christensen.

Download or read book Production Function written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Production Function The production function is a concept in economics that describes the technological relationship that exists between the quantities of physical inputs and the quantities of things that are produced. When it comes to standard neoclassical ideas, the production function is one of the most important notions. It is utilized to define marginal product and to differentiate allocative efficiency, which is a very important aspect of economics. As an engineer or a professional manager might understand it, one of the most important purposes of the production function is to address allocative efficiency in the use of factor inputs in production and the resulting distribution of income to those factors. This is accomplished while abstracting away from the technological problems that arise in the process of achieving technical efficiency. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Production function Chapter 2: Physical capital Chapter 3: Growth accounting Chapter 4: Marginal cost Chapter 5: Cobb-Douglas production function Chapter 6: Marginal product Chapter 7: Diminishing returns Chapter 8: Output (economics) Chapter 9: Returns to scale Chapter 10: Cost curve Chapter 11: Solow-Swan model Chapter 12: Total cost Chapter 13: Constant elasticity of substitution Chapter 14: Supply (economics) Chapter 15: Production (economics) Chapter 16: Marginal product of capital Chapter 17: Productivity Chapter 18: Marginal product of labor Chapter 19: AK model Chapter 20: Technological theory of social production Chapter 21: Cambridge capital controversy (II) Answering the public top questions about production function. (III) Real world examples for the usage of production function in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Production Function.

Download or read book The Economics of Production written by Bruce R. Beattie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical aspects of production: the productivity fundtions; Economic aspects of production: the input perpspective; Economic aspects of production: the output perspective; Multiproduct production; Duality theory.