Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50790#.VE8SJVfHRK0 Author(s) Rolf Färe 1,2 , Giannis Karagiannis 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA . 2 Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA . 3 Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece . ABSTRACT Based on the concept of translation elasticity we restate in this note the Fare and Grosskopf’s [1] conditions for additive separability of the profit function. We show that for the profit function to be additively separable, the technology must satisfy both simultaneous input-and-out...
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