The Translog Production Function and Variable Returns to Scale

The Translog Production Function and Variable Returns to Scale
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Translog 生产函数和变量规模报酬

DOI:
10.2307/2109500
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发表时间:
1992
期刊:
The Review of Economics and Statistics
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通讯作者:
H. Kim
H. Kim
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H. Kim

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本文探讨了现有的方法估计的translog生产函数,并提供了一个一般框架,允许可变回报的规模。该模型是基于逆输入需求函数,并嵌入了非相似的生产技术。以前的估计方法只适用于具有固定规模效应的同质技术。对美国制造业的估计结果表明,无论是相似性和同质性,还是规模报酬不变,都不是生产基本结构的适当表征,从而证明了需要非相似技术的反向需求框架的经验相关性。版权所有1992年由麻省理工学院出版社。
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 demand function and embeds a nonhomothetic production technology. Previous estimation methods are valid only for homogeneous technologies with fixed scale effects. Estimation results for U.S. manufacturing show that neither homotheticity and homogeneity nor constant returns to scale is a proper characterization of the underlying structure of production, thereby vindicating the empirical relevance of the inverse demand framework that entails a nonhomothetic technology. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.