In This Note, We Present the Appropriate Forms of Shephard's Lemma, As Well As the Curvature and Homogeneity Properties, for the Case of a Rate-Of- Return Regulated Cost Function Where Capital Is a Quasi-Fixed Input.

Optimum commodity taxation theory asks how to raise a given amount of tax revenue while minimizing distortions. We reexamine Ramsey’s inverse elasticity rule in presence of Hotelling-type non-renewable natural resources. Under standard assumptions borrowed from the...