Research Catalog

Title

Multi-output production and duality : theory and applications / Rolf Färe and Daniel Primont.

Author

Färe, Rolf, 1942-

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Primont, Daniel.

Description

xii, 172 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Production functions (Economic theory)
• Duality theory (Mathematics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Theories of the Firm through Duality. 1.1. The Different Behavioral Assumptions. 1.2. Using Duality Theory to Overcome Data Problems. 1.3. The Completion of Ronald W. Shephard's Duality -- 2. Distance Functions. 2.1. Input and Output Distance Functions. 2.2. Efficiency Measurement. 2.3. Quantity Index Applications. 2.4. Modelling Returns to Scale -- 3. Cost and Revenue Functions. 3.1. Duality Theorems. 3.2. Derivative Properties of Cost and Revenue Functions. 3.3. Shadow Pricing of Inputs and Outputs. 3.4. Overall Efficiency Measurement. 3.5. Price Indexes. 3.6. Inverse Homotheticity -- 4. Indirect Distance Functions. 4.1. Cost and Revenue Constrained Firms. 4.2. Dualities. 4.3. Derivative Properties of the Indirect Distance Functions. 4.4. Nonparametric Testing -- 5. Indirect Cost and Revenue Functions. 5.1. Duality Theorems. 5.2. Derivative Properties. 5.3. Cost Benefit Analysis -- 6. The Profit Function. 6.1. Duality Theorems. 6.2. The Profit, Cost, and Revenue Functions.
• 6.3. The Profit, Indirect Input Distance and Indirect Output Distance Functions. 6.4. The Profit, Indirect Cost and Indirect Revenue Functions -- 7. Towards Empirical Applications. 7.2. Monotonicity, Homogeneity and Convexity. 7.3. Homogeneous and Inversely Homothetic Technologies. 7.4. Functional Forms.

ISBN

0792395182 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94037152

OCLC

• 31376597
• ocm31376597

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries