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Solow Model: Steady State v Balanced Growth Path
This is when the attempt at accuracy creates confusion and misunderstanding.
Back in the day, growth models were not incorporating technological progress, and led to a long-run equilibrium ...
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How to derive firm's cost function from production function?
"I am not given wealth $w$ although I suppose I could assume any firm who
is purchasing has some budget."
No. This is exactly where the fundamental microeconomic theory of the firm differs from the ...
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CES: Production function: Elasticity of substitution $\sigma = 1/(1 + \rho)$
The production function is:
$$q = (l^\rho + k^\rho)^\frac{1}{\rho}$$
The MPL and MPK are respectively:
$$q_l = \frac{\partial q}{\partial l} = \frac{1}{\rho} \cdot (l^\rho + k^\rho)^{\frac{1}{\rho}-1} ...
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CobbDouglas: Constant marginal costs and constant returns to scale
Since the exponents add to one the production function has constant returns to scale, which means that, given factor prices, total cost is linear, which means that it's derivative (= marginal cost) is ...
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Is it true that $\frac{dL}{dq}=1/\frac{\partial q}{\partial L}$?
Question: is the following correct ?
$$\frac{dL}{dq}=1/\frac{\partial q}{\partial L},\;\frac{dK}{dq}=1/\frac{\partial q}{\partial K}$$
In general, no. Since $q= f(L,K)$ is a multivariable, ...
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Concave production function implies convex cost function
Given the fixed input price $w$, the cost function can be written as
$$
C(q)=f^{-1}(q)\times w
$$
where $f^{-1}$ is the inverse of the production function $f$. From the discussion here, one can ...
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How do we estimate production functions?
The following is the basic idea if we are to estimate the parameters by linear regression.
Take the natural log of the production function $F(L,K)=L^aK^b$, you will then get $$\ln(F)=a\ln(L)+b\ln(K).$...
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Why labour, capital, and output levels cannot be pinned down in perfect competition?
Thus, the furthest we can go in terms of characterising the equilibrium in this economy/firm relates to the optimal capital-labour ratio. In effect, nothing can be said about the level of inputs and ...
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Euler's Theorem
They both relate in one way or the other to extensions of the same mathematical object, namely the Cauchy-Euler differential equation, that has the form
$$a_{n} x^n f^{(n)}(x) + a_{n-1} x^{n-1} f^{(n-...
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Under what condition is a cost function strictly concave in prices?
No function that is homogeneous of degree one, is at the same time strictly concave in its arguments. If the function is differentiable (or non-differentiable at a finite number of points), then the ...
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Confusing on the CRS Property of CES Function
Consider the function $f(K,L) = [\alpha K^\rho + \beta L^\rho]^{1/\rho}$. We want to evaluate the limit of $f$ when $\rho \to 0$.
$$
\lim_{\rho \to 0} f(K,L) = \lim_{\rho \to 0} [\alpha K^\rho + \beta ...
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Lessons From Successfully small island economies
I like this question, in the sense that although it is broad, I think it can be answered concisely and factually.
Singapore and China (from your previous question) are largely authoritarian countries....
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What exactly is L in a Cobb-Douglas production function?
It can be both. The number of working hours are of course easier to interpret. You can also make the assumption that every employee works some fixed number of hours, say 8 per day (or 220 per month, ...
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Is it true that $\frac{dL}{dq}=1/\frac{\partial q}{\partial L}$?
It is valid but only in the short run with the assumption that the capital is fixed.
By assuming that output depends on labor and capital you can write
$$q=q(L,K)$$
Now taking the total derivative
$...
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How was the CES production function derived?
The CES function can be derived directly from the condition of constant elasticity of substitution. There are various ways to do this, but the simplest derivation occurs for a homothetic production ...
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Deriving the translog production function
The idea is indeed to Taylor expand the production function. To justify it, you can start with the constant elasticity of substitution function, which in the two-factor case can be written as
$$
Y = ...
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Aggregate production function and returns to scale
I am assuming that you are interested in finding the aggregate production function when you have two plants and they use same inputs. So if you have $k$ units of capital and $l$ units of labor in ...
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What does it mean by 'intensive form'?
The intensive form of the production function is derived from the following. Let us assume a production function, F, with inputs of capital, K, and labor and technology, AL. Thus, output, $Y = F(K,AL)$...
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Financial investment in the composition of GDP
What you're describing is a change in the capital account, not in GDP. They're related through the balance of payments, in that if a country is running a current account deficit (usually arising ...
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CES Production Function with $\rho>1$
The problem with $\rho>1$ is that it means the marginal product of factors is not decreasing ($\rho<1$) or constant ($\rho=1$) but increasing, which is an odd assumption. Such functions yield ...
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Solow Model: Steady State v Balanced Growth Path
Following the conversation with user @denesp at the comments of my previous answer, I have to clarify the following: the usual graphical device we use related to the basic Solow growth model (see for ...
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How to show the production function is concave in K and L but not strictly so?
So we want the Hessian to be NSD, so we need the PMs to alternate weakly.
$H=\begin{bmatrix} F_{kk} & F_{kl} \\
F_{kl} & F_{ll}
\end{bmatrix}~~NSD \iff~~~F_{kk},F_{ll}\leq0~~~\&~~F_{kk}...
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Returns to scale - Constant Function
You want to find a relation between $tF(z)$ and $F(tz)$ for all $t>1$ (or $0$ for CRS).
So since $2t=tF(z)>F(tz)=2$ for all $t>1$, we see decreasing returns to scale.
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Is Artificial Intelligence a completely new (and underestimated) production factor?
My guess is that it is not a new factor of production, but simply a type of total factor productivity. This is because:
factors of production are a stock, which produce services. What is the stock of ...
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Notation of a Cobb-Douglas function printed in 1989
Seems to be the second one, so $$ Q_t = A_t*(K_t^\alpha N^\beta_t T_t^\rho). $$
Two clues:
This is the usual specification.
On the top of page 14 it is written that
$$
w_t = \beta Q_t/N_t.
$$
Given ...
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What's the relationship between Output elasticity and Returns to scale?
Define the production function $Q=f(x_1,..,x_k)$, where $x_i$ denotes the ith input.
Next recall that the total differential of output can be written as
$\Delta Q = \sum_{i=1}^{\ k}\frac{\partial Q}{\...
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List of production functions that satisfy the Inada conditions
The Wikipedia statement should come with a citation or proof, as it is not entirely accurate: Cobb-Douglas functions with increasing returns to scale do not necessarily satisfy the Inada conditions, e....
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How was the Cobb Douglas function derived?
What is the proof of this formula?
There is actually no proof for what the production function should be. There are infinite many possible production functions and to discover which one is the most ...
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Finding the conditional input demand function
Output $z$ is given as $z = x + y$ where $x=min(a,2b)$ and $y = max(3c,4d)$.
So assume that you want $x=12$ then $a=12$ AND $b=6$. Since this part of the production delivers only the minimum of ...
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