Application of the translog profit function to farm-level data from Punjab, India, allowed a more disaggregated analysis of the farm production structure compared to the case of Cobb-Douglas ...

The author establishes a property of supply for a competitive firm: Assuming differentiability of the production frontier, linearly independent price vectors have disjoint image sets under the supply ...

1. If marginal product is decreasing, then average product must also be decreasing. 2. For a fixed-proportion technology, inputs cannot be substituted for each other in production. 3. The marginal ...

Rulon D. Pope, professor of economics at Brigham Young University, received the Quality of Research Discovery award at the national conference of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association in ...

The Indian poultry industry, which faced challenges in the past couple of years due to volatile market conditions is set for recovery in the current fiscal with prices of inputs such as maize and ...

MUMBAI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - India steel futures may continue their winning streak in coming weeks on rising input costs and hopes of a demand revival from construction and automobiles sector, analysts ...