This paper applies production theory to define a new set of inputs for U.S. households over the post-World War II period and uses newly constructed data on some of these inputs to fit a completehousehold-demand system, including inputs of women’s and men’s housework, and seven other...

In seinem 1978 erschienenen Aufsatz "Überlegungen zum Inhalt des Fachs »Produktionswirtschaftslehre«" forderte ZÄPFEL den Einbezug der Leistungserstellungnichtmaterieller Güter - worunter er Dienstleistungen versteht - in die Produktionswirtschaftslehresowie die Erstellung von Typologien,...

Es handelt sich um eine Fallstudie aus dem Bereich der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in der Zeitschrift "das wirtschaftsstudium".

In this paper we analyze the evolution of output decisions of adaptive firms in an environment of oligopolistic competition. The firm might either choose to produce one of several existing product variants or try to establish a new product variant on the market....

In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farmsgrouped into each of four regions—North, Northeast, East, and Southwest—over 1995-1999.These frontier production functions are shown to have statistically different structures, and themarginal product...

A broad literature seeks to assess the importance of schools, proxies for school quality, andfamily background on children's achievement growth using the education production function.Using rich data from the Philippines, we introduce and estimate a model that imposes littlestructure on the...

When adjustment costs are present, cyclical preference and technology heterogeneities in aproduct’s markets induce cycles in production. We exploit cyclic and dihedral groupinvariances in an industry’s cost technology to describe these patterns. We show whenequilibrium cyclical pricing and...

In this paper we examine the relation between geographic location and innovative behavior.Knowledge spillins, as opposed to knowledge spillovers, are modeled as an externality which existsbetween geographically close economic agents and enters the representative inventor productionfunction...

This paper applies production theory to define a new set of inputs for U.S. households for thepost-war II period, tests the new inputs to see if they support a complete household-demandsystem, and reports a new social cost-of-living index. The data support a demand system withnine major input...

We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process...