Accession Number:

ADA010139

Title:

On Homothetic Scalar Valued Production Functions.

Descriptive Note:

Research rept.,

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Fare,Rolf
• Shephard,Ronald W.

Report Date:

1975-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

Seven equivalent statements of homotheticity are given for scalar valued production functions. These 7 statements relate to the functional form, the level sets Lu, the cost function, linearity of expansion paths and the distance function for the correspondence u maps to Lu.

Descriptors:

• *FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS)
• COSTS
• SET THEORY
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE