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Selected Fisheries Literature (Based on Producer and Consumer Theory) and Some Useful Production Literature

General

Commercial Fishery Applications Using Bioeconomic Models

Commercial Fishery Applications on Productivity

Commercial Fishery Applications Using Dual Cost Functions

Commercial Fishery Applications Using Dual Revenue Functions

General Fishery Production Discussions and Applications to ITQs or Quotas

Commercial Fishery Applications Using Discrete Choice Models

Applied Consumer Demand Analyses, Market Studies & Price Formation Models

Price Formation

Production Theory and Econometrics: Non-Fishery Papers on Functional Structure (Nonjointness, Separability, Homogeneity, Homotheticity, Returns to Scale, Elasticities, etc.)

Econometrics and Flexible Functional Forms

Books on Production Theory


General

Dupont, D.P., R.Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley, and D. Squires. 2001. "Capacity Utilization Measures and Excess Capacity in Multi-Product Privatized Fisheries." Resource and Energy Economics, in press.


Dupont, D.P., R.Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley, and D. Squires. "Capacity Utilization, and Technical Efficiency of Pollock Catcher-Processors." Forthcoming in Marine Resource Economics.

Felthoven, R.G. and C.J. Morrison Paul. 2002. "Multi-Output,Non-Frontier Primal Measures of Capacity and Capacity Utilization." In progress."

Grafton, R.Q., Y. Jeon, J.E. Kirkley, and D. Squires. 2001. "Tragedy of the Commons: Capacity Measures and the Privatization of the Fishery.Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.

Kirkley, J., R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, K. McConnell, D. Squires, and I. Strand. 2001. "Assessing Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Fisheries When Data Are Limited." North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 21(3): 482-497.


Kirkley, J., C.J. Morrison Paul, and D. Squires. 2002. "Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Fishing Industries: Definition, Measurement, and a Comparison of Approaches."Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.

Kirkley, J., and D. Squires. 1999. "Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Fishing Industries. UC San Diego Discussion Paper 99-16.

Smith, C.L. and S.S. Hanna. 1994."Measuring Fleet Capacity and Capacity Utilization." OSU working paper OSU-94-103.

Walden, J.B. and J. Kirkley. 2000. "Measuring Capacity of the New England Otter Trawl Fleet." Selected Paper, International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade Conference, Oregon State University.

Walden, J.B., J. Kirkley, and A. Kitts. 2000. "Measurement and Evaluation of the Northeast Fishing Capacity Buyout Program. Unpublished manuscript.

Grafton, R.Q., D. Squires, and K.J. Fox. 2000. "Private Property and Economic Efficiency: a Study of a Common-Pool Resource. Journal of Law and Economics, 43(2): 679-715.

Kirkley, J., D. Squires, and I. Strand. 1995. "Assessing Technical Efficiency in Commercial Fisheries: The Mid Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77(3): 686-97.

Orea, L., A. Alvarez, and C.J. Morrison Paul. 2002. "Modeling and Measuring Production Processes for a Multi-Species Fishery: Alternative Technical Efficiency Estimates for the Northern Spain Hake Fishery." In progress.

Sharma, K.R., and P. Leung. 1998. "Technical Efficiency of the Longline Fishery in Hawaii: An Application of a Stochastic Production Frontier." Marine Resource Economics, 13(4): 259-274.

Weninger, Q. 2001. "An Analysis of the Efficient Production Frontier in the Fishery: Implications for Enhanced Fisheries Management." Applied Economics, 33: 71-79.

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Commercial Fishery Applications Using Bioeconomic Models

Clarke, R.P., S.S. Yoshimoto and S.G. Pooley. 1992."A Bioeconomic Analysis of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Lobster Fishery." Marine Resource Economics, 7: 115-140.

Conrad, J. 1982. "Production in Single and Multispecies Fisheries: a Bioeconomic Perspective." In Lectures on the Economics of Fisheries Production. National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on Fisheries Economics. Orlando, Florida.

Johnson, B.L., S.R. Milliman, and R.C. Bishop. 1992. "Evaluating Fishery Rehabilitation Under Uncertainty: A Bioeconomic Analysis of Quota Management for the Green Bay Yellow Perch Fishery. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 12(4), 703-720.

Larkin, S. and G. Sylvia. 1999. "Intrinsic Fish Characteristics and Intraseason Production Efficiency: A Management-Level Bioeconomic Analysis of a Commercial Fishery." American Journal Agricultural Economics, 81(1): 29-43.

Onal. H., B.A. McCarl, W.L. Griffin, G. Matlock and J. Clark. 1991. "A Bioeconomic Analysis of the Texas Shrimp Fishery and Its Optimal Management." American Journal Agricultural Economics, 73: 1161-70.

Thunberg, E.M., T.E. Helser and R.K. Mayo. 1998. "Bioeconomic Analysis of Alternative Selection Patterns in the United States Atlantic Silver Hake Fishery." Marine Resource Economics, 13: 51-74.

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Commercial Fishery Applications on Productivity

Davis, L.E., Gallman, R.E., and Hutchins, T.D. 1987. "Technology,Productivity, and Profits: British-American Whaling Competition." Oxford Economic Papers, 39: 738-759.

Felthoven, R.G. and C.J. Morrison Paul. 2002. "Measuring Productivity Change and its Components: The Case of the Alaskan Pollock Fishery, 1994-2000." In progress.

Jin, D., E. Thunberg, H. Kit-Powell, and K. Blake. 2002. "Total Factor Productivity Change in the New England Groundfish Fishery: 1964-1993." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.

Kirkley, J. 1984. "Productivity in Fisheries." National Marine Fisheries Service. Woods Hole, MA. Unpublished manuscript.

Kirkley, J., C.J. Morrison Paul, S. Cuningham, and J. Catanzano. 2002. "Embodied and Disembodied Technical Progress in Fisheries: An Analysis of the S_te Trawl Fishery, 1985-1999." In progress.

Norton, V., M. Miller, and K. Kinney. "Indexing the Economic Health of the U.S. Fishing Industry." NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/NEC-40.

Squires, D. 1992. "Productivity Measurement in Common Property Resource Industries: An Application to the Pacific Coast Trawl Fishery." Rand Journal of Economics, 23(2): 221-236.

Squires, D. 1998. "On the Measurement of Total Factor Productivity in Common Property Resource Industries and Implications for License Limitation Programs." National Marine Fisheries Service, Administrative Report LJ-978-05.

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Commercial Fishery Applications Using Dual Cost Functions

Curtis, R. and R.G. Felthoven. 2002. "Effects of Temporal Aggregation in Fishery Supply Models." In Progress.

Dupont, D.P. 1991. "Testing for Input Substitution in a Regulated Fishery." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(1): 155-64.

Dupont, D.P. 1990. "Rent Dissipation in Restricted Access Fisheries." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 19(1): 26-44.

Grafton, R.Q. 1995."Rent Capture in a Rights-Based Fishery. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 28(1): 48-67.

Squires, D. 1987. "Long Run Profit Functions for Multiproduct Firms." American Journal of Agricultural Economics,69(3): 558-69.

Squires, D. 1987. "Public Regulation and the Structure of Production in Multiproduct Industries: An Application to the New England Otter Trawl Industry." Rand Journal of Economics,18(2): 232-248.

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Commercial Fishery Applications Using Dual Revenue Functions

Campbell, H.F. and R.B. Nicholl. 1994. "Can Purse Seiners Target Yellowfin Tuna?" Land Economics, 70(3): 345-354.

Kirkley, J.E. and I. E. Strand. 1988. "The Technology and Management of Multi-species Fisheries." Applied Economics, 20: 1279-1292.

Salvanes, K.G. and F. Steen. 1994. "Testing for Relative Performance between Seasons in a Fishery." Land Economics, 70(4): 431-47.

Interdependencies and the Value of Effort in a Multispecies Fishery." Marine Resource Economics, 10(1): 59-76.

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General Fishery Production Discussions and Applications to ITQs or Quotas

Kirkley, J. 1982. "An Empirical Examination of Fisheries Production Relationships: Single and Multiple Species." In Lectures on the Economics of Fisheries Production. National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on Fisheries Economics. Orlando, Florida

Kirkley, J. and I.E. Strand. 1988. "The Technology and Management of Multi-species Fisheries." Applied Economics, 20: 1279-1292.

Munro, G.R. and A.D. Scott. 1985. "The Economics of Fisheries Management." In Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics, eds. A.V. Kneese and J.L. Sweeney. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Squires, D. 1982. "On the Application of Production Theory to Commercial Fishing: Static Analysis." In Lectures on the Economics of Fisheries Production. National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on Fisheries Economics. Orlando, Florida.

Industries: An Application to the New England Otter Trawl Industry."Rand Journal of Economics, 18(2), 232-248.

Squires, D. and J. Kirkley. 1991. "Production Quota in Multiproduct Pacific Fisheries." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 21: 109-126.

Squires, D., M. Alauddin, and J. Kirkley. 1994. "Individual Transferable Quota Markets and Investment Decisions in the Fixed Gear Sablefish Industry." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 27(2), 185-204.

Squires, D. and J. Kirkley. 1996. "Individual Transferable Quotas in a Multiproduct Common Property Industry." Canadian Journal of Economics, 29(2):318-342.

Weninger, Q. and I.E. Strand. 2001. "An Empirical Analysis of Production Distortions in the Mid-Atlantic Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog Fishery." In progress.

Weninger, Q. and R.E. Just. 1997. "An Analysis of Transition from Limited Entry to Transferable Quota: Non-Marshallian Principles for Fisheries Management."NaturalResources Modeling, 10(1): 53-83.

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Commercial Fishery Applications Using Discrete Choice Models

Berman, M., S. Haley and H. Kim. 1997. "Estimating Net Benefits of Reallocation: Discrete Choice models of Sport and Commercial Fishing." Marine Resource Economics, 12: 307-327.

Bockstael, N.E. and J.J. Opaluch. 1983. "Discrete Modeling of Supply Response Under Uncertainty: the Case of the Fishery." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 10: 125-37.

Campbell, H.F. 1991. "Estimating the Elasticity of Substitution between Restricted and Unrestricted Inputs in a Regulated Fishery: A Probit Approach." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 20(2): 262-274.

Dupont, D.P. 1993. "Price Uncertainty, Expectations Formation and Fishers' Location Choices."
Marine Resource Economics,
8: 219-47.

Eales, J. and J.E. Wilen. 1986. "An Examination of Fishing Location Choice in the Pink Shrimp
Fishery." Marine Resource Economics, 2(4): 331-51.

"Multispecies Fisheries: A Nonparametric Approach." Marine Resource Economics, 11: 181-201.

Larson, D.M., B.W. House and J.M. Terry. 1998. "Bycatch Control in Multispecies Fisheries: a Quasi-rent Share Approach to the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Midwater Trawl Pollock Fishery." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80: 778-792.

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Applied Consumer Demand Analyses, Market Studies & Price Formation Models

 
Barten, A. P. and L.J. Bettendorf. 1989. "Price Formation of Fish: An Application of an Inverse Demand System," Eur. Econom. Rev., 33: 1509-1525.

Cheng, H. and O. Capps, Jr. 1988."Demand Analysis of Fresh and Frozen Finfish and Shellfish in the United States," American J. Agricultural Econom., 70: 533-42.

Eales, J., C. Durham, and C. R. Wessells. 1997. "Generalized Models of Japanese Demand for Fish," Amer. J. Agricultural Econom., 79: 1153-63.

Halbrendt, C. 1995. "Marketing Problems and Opportunities in Mid-Atlantic Seafood Retailing," American J. Agricultural Econom., 77:1313-1318.

Naumann, F., C. Gempesaw, J. R. Bacon and A. Manalo. 1995. "Consumer Choice for Fresh Fish: Factors Affecting Purchase Decisions," Marine Resource Econom., 10: 117-142.

Wessells, C. R., C.J. Miller and P. M. Brooks. 1995. "Toxic Algae Contamination and Demand for Shellfish: A Case Study of Demand for Mussels in Montreal," Marine Resource Econom., 10: 143-159.

Wessells, C. R. and J. E. Wilen. 1994. "Seasonal Patterns and Regional Preferences in Household Demand for Seafood," Can. J. Agricultural Econom., 10: 143-159.

Wessells, C. R. and J. E. Wilen. 1992. "Innovations and Progress in Seafood Demand and Market Analysis," Marine Resource Economics, 7: 209-28.

 Greenberg, J.A., M. Herrmann and J. McCracken. 1995. "An International Supply and Demand Model for Alaska Snow Crab," Marine Resource Econom., 10: 231-246.

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Price Formation

Gillig, D. O. Capps, Jr. and W.L. Griffin, "Shrimp Ex-Vessel Prices Landed from the Gulf of Mexico," Marine Resource Econom., 13: 89-102.

Matulich, s. C. R. C. Mittelhammer, and J. A. Greenberg. 1995. "Ex-vessel Price Determination in the Alaska King Crab Fishery: A Formula Price Contract under Uncertainty?" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 28: 374-387.

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Production Theory and Econometrics:
Non-Fishery Papers on Functional Structure (Nonjointness, Separability, Homogeneity, Homotheticity, Returns to Scale, Elasticities, etc.)

Berndt, E. and L. Christensen. 1973. "The Internal Structure of Functional Relationships:  Separability, Substitution and Aggregation." Review of Economic Studies, 40: 403-410.

Berndt, E. and M.S. Khaled. 1979. "Parametric Productivity Measurement and Choice Among Flexible Functional Forms." The Journal of Political Economy, 87(6): 1220-1245.

Blackorby, C. and W.E. Diewert. 1979. "Expenditure Functions, Local Duality, and Second Order Approximations." Econometrica, 47(3): 579-602.

Blackorby, C., G. Lady, D. Nissen, R. Russell. 1970. "Homothetic Separability and Consumer Budgeting." Econometrica, 38(3): 468-472.

Blackorby, C. and R. Russell. 1981. "The Morishima Elasticity of Substitution; Symmetry, Constancy, Separability and its Relationship to the Hicks and Allen Elasticities." Review of Economic Studies, 48: 147-158.

Blackorby, C. and R. Russell. 1976. "Functional Structure and the Allen Partial Elasticities of Substitution: An Application of Duality Theory." Review of Economic Studies, 43(2): 285-291.

Blackorby, C. and W. Schworm. 1988. "The Structure of Economies with Aggregate Measures of Capital: A Complete Characterization." Review of Economic Studies, 51(4): 633-650.

Blackorby, C. and W. Schworm. 1988. "The Existence of Input and Output Aggregates in Aggregate Production Functions." Econometrica, 56(3): 613-643.

Caves, D.W., L.R. Christensen, and W.E. Diewert. 1982. "The Economic Theory of Index Numbers and the Measurement of Input, Output, and Productivity." Econometrica, 50(6):1393-1414.

Chambers, R.G., and R.E. Just. 1989. "Estimating Multioutput Technologies." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 980-995.

Conlon, J.R. 1993. "Separability and Separability Flexibility of the CRESH Function." Journal Of Productivity Analysis, 4: 347-352.

Färe, R. and R. Shephard. 1977. "Ray-Homothetic Production Functions." Econometrica, 45: 133-146.

Färe, R. and L. Svensson. 1980. "Congestion of Productive Factors." Econometrica, 48(7): 1745-1753.

Gorman, W. 1959. "Separable Utility and Aggregation." Econometrica, 27: 469-481.

Gorman, W. 1968. "Conditions for Additive Separability." Econometrica, 36(3/4): 605-609.

Hall, R. 1973. "The Specification of Technology with Several Kinds of Output." Journal of Political Economy, 81(4): 878-92.

Hall. R. 1968. "Technical Change and Capital from the Point of the Dual." The Review of Economic Studies, 35(1): 35-46.

Hanoch, G. 1971. "CRESH Production Functions." Econometrica, 39(5): 695-712.

Hanoch, G. 1975. "The Elasticity of Scale and the Shape of Average Costs." American Economic Review, 65(3): 492-497.

Hanoch, G. 1975. "Production and Demand Models with Direct or Indirect Implicit Additivity." Functions." Econometrica, 43(3): 395-420.

Just, R.E., D. Zilberman, and E. Hochman. 1983. "Estimation of Multicrop Production Functions." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 770-780.

Lau, L.J. 1978. "Applications of Profit Functions." In Production Economics: a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, M. Fuss and D. McFadden eds. Vol.1, North Holland, Amsterdam.

McFadden, D. 1963. "Constant Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions." Review of Economic Studies, 73-83.

McFadden, D. 1978. "Cost, Revenue, and Profit Functions." In Production Economics: a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, M. Fuss and D. McFadden eds. Vol.1, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Mittlehammer, R.C., S.C. Matulich, and D. Bushaw. 1981. "On Implicit Forms of Multiproduct -Multifactor Production Functions." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63: 164-168.

Mundlak, Y. 1968. "Elasticities of Substitution and the Theory of Derived Demand." Review of Economic Studies, 225-236.

Panzar, J. and R. Willig. 1977. "Economies of Scale in Multi-Output Production." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 481-493.

Panzar, J. and R. Willig. 1981. "Economies of Scope." American Economic Review, 71:268 -272.

Pope, R.D. and A. Hallam. 1988. "Separability Testing in Production Economics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics,70: 142-152.

Sakai, Y. 1974. "Substitution and Expansion Effects in Production Theory: The Case of Joint Production." Journal of Economic Theory, 9:255-274.

Samuelson, D. A. 1968. "Two Generalizations of the Elasticity of Substitution." In Value Capital and Growth, ed. J.N. Wolfe, Chicago: Aldine.

Samuleson, P. 1966. "The Fundamental Singularity Theorem for Non-joint Production." International Economic Review, 7:34-41.

Sandler, T and A. Swimmer. 1978. "The Properties and Generation of Homothetic Production Functions." Journal of Economic Theory, 18:349-361.

Shumway, C.R., R.D. Pope, and E.K. Nash. 1984. "Allocatable Fixed Inputs and Jointness in Agricultural Production: Implications for Economic Modeling." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72-79.

Zellner, A. and N. Revankar. 1969. "Generalized Production Functions." Review of Economic Studies, 241-250.

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Econometrics and Flexible Functional Forms

Berndt, E.R. 1991. The Practice of Econometrics: Classic and Contemporary. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Bierens, H.J. 1990. "A Consistent Conditional Moment Test of Functional Form." Econometrica, 58:1443-1458.

Diewert, E. 1973. "Functional Forms for Profit and Transformation Functions." Journal of Economic Theory, 6(3): 285-304.

Diewert, E. 1974. "Functional Forms for Revenue and Factor Requirements Functions." International Economic Review, 15:119-130.

Diewert, W.E., and T.J. Wales. 1987. "Flexible Functional Forms and Global Curvature Conditions." Econometrica, 55(1) 43-68.

Driscoll, P., A.M. McGuirk and J. Alwang. 1992. "Testing Hypotheses of Functional Structure: Some Rules for Determining Flexibility of Restricted Production Models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,74(1): 100-108.

Fuss, M., D. McFadden, and Y. Mundlak. 1978. "A Survey of Functional Forms in the Economic Analysis of Production." In Production Economics: a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, M. Fuss and D. McFadden eds. Vol.1, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Gallant, R.G. 1981. "On the Bias in Flexible Functional Forms and an Essentially Unbiased Form: The Fourier Form." Journal of Econometrics, 15: 211-245.

Griffiths, W.E., R.C. Hill and G.G. Judge. 1993. Learning and Practicing Econometrics. John Wiley & Sons.

Hoch, I. 1958. "Simultaneous Equation Bias in the context of the Cobb-Douglas Production Function." Econometrica, 566-578.

Hoch, I. 1962. "Estimation of Production Function Parameters Combining Time-Series and Cross-Section Data." Econometrica, 30(1): 34-53.

Krinsky, I. and L. Robb. 1986. "On Approximating the Statistical Properties of Elasticities. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 715-719.

Kumbhakar, C. and C.A. Knox Lovell. 2000. Stochastic Frontier Analysis.Cambridge University Press.

Lau, L.J. 1978. "Applications of Profit Functions." InProduction Economics: a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, M. Fuss and D. McFadden eds. Vol.1, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Lau, L.J. 1978. "Testing and Imposing Monotonicity, Convexity and Quasi-Convexity Constraints."In Production Economics: a Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, M. Fuss and D. McFadden eds. Vol.1, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Leston D. and B.D. McCullough. 1998. "Better Confidence Intervals: the Double Bootstrap with No Pivot." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80: 552-559.

Löthgren, M. 1997. "Generalized Stochastic Frontier Production Models." Economics Letters, 57: 255-259.

Marshak, J. and W.H. Andrews. 1944. "Random Simultaneous Equations and the Theory of Production." Econometrica, July-October: 143-205.

McElroy, M. 1987. "Additive General Error Models for Production, Cost and Derived Demand or Share Systems." Journal of Political Economy, 95: 737-757.

Mundlak, Y. and I. Hoch. 1965. "Consequences of Alternative Specifications in Estimation of Cobb-Douglas Production Functions." Econometrica, 33(4): 814-828.

Mundlak, Y. 1965. "Production Function Estimation: Reviving the Primal." Econometrica,64(2): 431-438.

Zellner, A., J. Kmenta and J. Dreze. 1966. "Specification and Estimation of Cobb-Douglas Production Function Models." Econometrica, October: 784-795.

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Books on Production Theory

Beattie, B.R. and C.R. Taylor. 1985. The Economics of Production. Krieger Publishing. 

Coelli, T., D.S. Prasada Rao, and G.E. Battese. 1998. An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Cornes, R.C. 1992. Duality and Modern Economics. Cambridge University Press.

Färe, R., S. Grosskopf, and C.A. Knox Lovell. 1994. Production Frontiers. Cambridge University Press.

Färe, R., and D. Primont. 1995. Multi-Output Production and Duality: Theory and Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Fried, H.O., C.A. Knox Lovell, S.S. Schmidt. 1993. The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications. Oxford University Press.

Laitinen, K. 1980. A Theory of the Multiproduct Firm. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Paul, C.J. Morrison. 1999. Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance. Kluwer Academic Press, Boston.

Shephard, R.W. 1970. Theory of Cost and Production Functions.Princeton: Princeton University Press.



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