Contrary to this assumption, we document that underemployment of quasi-fixed inputs or low capacity utilization rates (CUR) is common across firms, especially in poor countries. Low CURs are ...

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 ...

In this article, we explore the impact of imperfectly competitive input markets on production function estimation. First-order profit-maximizing conditions are altered when frictions in input markets ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - India steel futures are likely to trade in a range as support from reviving domestic demand is expected to offet easing prices of iron ore, a key input, analysts said. The ...