In this paper, we consider an economy with infinitely many commodities and non-convex production sets. We propose a definition of the marginal pricing rule which allows us to encompass the case of smooth and convex production sets. We also show the link with the definition used in a finite dimensional setting where the marginal pricing rule is defined by means of the Clarke’s normal cone. We pr...

BACKGROUND As a key strategy for mitigating global climate change, bioenergy production by reducing CO2 emissions plays an important role in ensuring sustainable development. However, land-use change by converting natural ecosystems into energy crop field could create a carbon debt at the beginning. Thus, the potential carbon debt calculation is necessary for determining a promising bioenergy c...

in this paper, productivity of and demand for water throughout eqlid’s sugar beet growers in 1385 were investigated. to address the objective 100 growers were selected using two-stage cluster sampling, then required dataset was obtained by interviewing and completing questionnaire. in order to study factors affecting sugar beet production, cobb-douglas production function was applied. based on ...

A class of semi-recursive kernel plug-in estimates of functions depending on multivariate density functionals and their derivatives is considered. The approach enables to estimate the production function, marginal productivity and marginal rate of technical substitution of inputs. The piecewise smoothed approximations of these estimates are proposed. The main parts of the asymptotic mean square...

A basic tenet of microeconomics is that for a competitive industry in equilibrium the market price of a product will be equal to its marginal cost. This paper develops a model framework and a corresponding empirical inference procedure for estimating longrun marginal cost in industries where production costs decline over time. In the context of the solar photovoltaic (PV) module industry, we re...

Fixed-path methods (FPMs) were introduced to manage situations where several individuals jointly operate a single technology (see [4]). In the production context, they consist in allocating marginal increments of output according to a proportions vector which changes along an arbitrary path. While very appealing from an incentives viewpoint under diminishing marginal returns, the asymmetry of t...

to evaluate the influence of core thickness and fabrication stages on the marginal accuracy of ips e.max press crowns.twenty ips e.max press crowns, 1.5mm thick, were fabricated on metal dies. the crowns had two different core thicknesses, 0.8mm for group a and 1mm for group b, ten for each group. marginal gap was measured after each stage of core fabrication, veneering and glaze firing. the sp...