This paper examines existing methods of estimating the translog production function and provides a general framework that allows for variable returns to scale. The model is based on the inverse input ...

I. Production and Cost: One Variable Input 1. True/ False 1. If marginal product is decreasing, then average product must also be decreasing. 2. For a fixed-proportion technology, inputs cannot be ...

We propose a method to consistently estimate production functions in the presence of input price dispersion when intermediate input quantities are not observed. We find that the traditional approach ...