Search Results - subject:"Cost function"

Reliability of the Translog Cost Function : Some Theory & an Application to the Demand of Energy in French Manufacturing

Baccar, Sourour - 2014

We investigate the behavior of three versions of the translog cost function: the standard Log-quadratic version and two …

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Cost Structure and Sticky Costs

Balakrishnan, Ramji; Labro, Eva; Soderstrom, Naomi Siegel - 2014

Beginning with Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman (2003), a rapidly growing literature attributes the short-run asymmetric cost response to activity changes (i.e., sticky costs) as resulting from short-run managerial choices. In this paper, we are agnostic on the theory of sticky costs. Rather,...

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Foundations of a Pure Cost Theory

Stackelberg, Heinrich von - 2014

Foreword -- Praise for the Book -- About the Translators -- Translators' Commentary -- 1 Foundations -- 2 Costs in Single Production -- 3 Costs in Joint Production -- 4 The Movement of Costs and the Structure of the Market Economy -- Appendix.

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Single item lot-sizing with non-decreasing capacities

Pochet, Yves; Wolsey, Laurence A. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2007

We consider the single item lot-sizing problem with capacities that are non-decreasing overtime. When the cost function …-decreasing over time. When the cost function is i) non-speculative or Wagner-Whitin (for instance, constant unit production costs …-C(ND), and more specifically the case in which the cost function is non-speculative or Wagner-Whitin and, in addi- tion, the …

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Discussão dos retornos à escala nos contextos das funções de produção e de custo

Alves, Eliseu - 2007

The article deals with the cost function at a mathematical level that only requires knowledge of differentials, but … existence of the cost function, points out its properties, and shows how it relates with the production function in the sense … and cost functions. Whenever profit is maximized, one is the reciprocal of the other. The cost function has not a defined …

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Offshoring and Relative Labor Demand in Swedish Firms

Andersson, Linda; Karpaty, Patrik - 2007

The objective of this paper is to analyze relative employment effects in Sweden due to offshoring. In contrast to most previous studies in this field, our analysis is based on firm level data. More specifically the dataset contains Swedish manufacturing firms, 1997-2002. In addition we have...

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Efecto de la intensificacion sobre la eficiencia de las explotaciones lecheras

Alvarez, Antonio; del Corral, Julio; Perez, Jose Antonio; … - In: Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales 07 (2007) 13

This study analyzes the differences on production cost associated with the intensification of production for a sample of dairy farms in Asturias. In doing so, we account for two methodological issues which are not usually considered in the empirical literature. On the one hand, we allow for...

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The Abatement Cost Function for Motor Vehicle Pollution Emissions: Evidence from Canada

Livernois, John; Moghadam, Arian - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

not in compliance with air emission regulations. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the abatement cost function for … leads to noncompliance, parameterizing the model, and then by simulating the total abatement cost function. Our model …

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Economias de escala na produção de leite: uma análise dos Estados de Rondônia, Tocantins e Rio de Janeiro

Gomes, Alexandre Lopes; Filho, Ferreira; Souza, Joaquim … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 45 (2007) 3

This study aimed to analize the business maintenance issue faced by milk producers, in the long term. It was analized farms in the states of Rondônia, Tocantins and Rio de Janeiro. The main goal of this study was to verify the existence of economies of scale among milk pro-ducers. The function...

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Substituição de fatores produtivos na produção de soja no Brasil

Conte, Luciane; Filho, Ferreira; Souza, Joaquim Bento de - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 45 (2007) 2

This paper analyzes the substitution relations between the main inputs used in soybean production in Brazil, through the esti-mates of Allen and Morishima substitution elasticities. The theoretical approach used is the production/cost duality. The data was obtained from field research in the...

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