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Factor Demands, Cost Functions, and Technology Measurements for Regulated Firms

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In this paper, the authors provide some missing elements to the theory of the regulated firm and discuss implications for econometric specification. Particular attention is paid to situations where capital is quasi-fixed under rate-of-return regulation, which may lead to serious specification and interpretation errors if the current theoretical basis is not adjusted. The authors also extend the analysis to arbitrary types of regulation and indicate precisely how the differential of factor demands can be specified and what regularity conditions it must satisfy. The exact formula for the calculation of marginal products, returns to scale, and technological change are derived.
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  • Pierre Lasserre & Pierre Ouellette, 1992. "Factor Demands, Cost Functions, and Technology Measurements for Regulated Firms," Cahiers de recherche du Département des sciences économiques, UQAM 9201, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences économiques.
    • Handle: RePEc:cre:uqamwp:9201
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    1. Pierre Ouellette & Stéphane Vigeant, 2006. "A generalized procedure to recover the first derivatives of a production function when the firm is a profit maximizer," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 27-33, August.
    2. Pierre Ouellette & Stéphane Vigeant, 2000. "A General Procedure to Recover the Marginal Products of a Cost Minimizing Firm," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 143-162, September.
    3. Ouellette, Pierre & Quesnel, Jean-Patrice & Vigeant, Stéphane, 2012. "Measuring returns to scale in DEA models when the firm is regulated," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(2), pages 571-576.
    4. Appelbaum, Elie & Berechman, Joseph, 1991. "Demand conditions, regulation, and the measurement of productivity," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 47(2-3), pages 379-400, February.
    5. Ouellette, Pierre & Petit, Patrick & Tessier-Parent, Louis-Philippe & Vigeant, Stéphane, 2010. "Introducing regulation in the measurement of efficiency, with an application to the Canadian air carriers industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 200(1), pages 216-226, January.
    6. Pierre Ouellette & Stéphane Vigeant, 2001. "Cost and Production Duality: The Case of the Regulated Firm," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 203-224, November.

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