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Multi-output production and duality : theory and applications

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
Subject
  • Production functions (Economic theory)
  • Duality theory (Mathematics)
  • Productiefuncties
  • Dualiteit
  • Microéconomie
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.
ISBN
  • 0792395182
  • 9780792395188
LCCN
94037152
OCLC
  • ocm31376597
  • 31376597
  • SCSB-9383588
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library