Production theory: accounting for firm heterogeneity and technical change

Dosi, Giovanni ; Grazzi, Marco ; Marengo, Luigi ; Settepanella, Simona (2014) Production theory: accounting for firm heterogeneity and technical change. Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 28. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/3983. In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE (931). ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract

The paper presents a new framework to assess firm level heterogeneity and to study the rate and direction of technical change. Building on the analysis of revealed short-run production functions by Hildenbrand (1981), we propose the (normalized) volume of the zonotope composed by vectors-firms in a narrowly defined industry as an indicator of inter-firm heterogeneity. Moreover, the angles that the main diagonal of the zonotope form with the axes provide a measure of the rates and directions of technical change over time. The proposed framework can easily account for n-inputs and m-outputs and, crucially, the measures of heterogeneity and technical change do not require many of the standard assumptions from production theory.

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Tipologia del documento
Monografia (Working paper)
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Dosi, Giovanni
Grazzi, Marco
Marengo, Luigi
Settepanella, Simona
Parole chiave
Production theory, Heterogeneous firms, Activity Analysis, Technical change, Zonotopes, Production functions
Settori scientifico-disciplinari
ISSN
2282-6483
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12 Mar 2014 10:44
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31 Mar 2014 08:27
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