Production as behavior toward risk
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This article presents a mean-variance model of the risk-averse firm under price uncertainty and examines the impact of uncertainty on the firm's production decision.It then develops a geometric method for comparative-statics analysis.Download Info
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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 33975.Length:
Date of creation: 1979
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Publication status: Published in Recherches Economiques de Louvain September 1979.45(1979): pp. 299-311
Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:33975
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Keywords: Theory of the firm under price uncertainty; production under price uncertainty;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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- Hawawini, Gabriel, 1978. "A mean-standard deviation exposition of the theory of the firm under uncertainty," MPRA Paper 10148, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Leland, Hayne E, 1972. "Theory of the Firm Facing Uncertain Demand," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 62(3), pages 278-91, June.
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- Hawawini, Gabriel & Michel, Pierre, 1979. "Theory of the risk averse producer cooperative firm under uncertain demand," MPRA Paper 33973, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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