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Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the service provided by the service provider by using the information of the user's interaction with the provider and the provider.
Abstract: Обсуждаются следующие темы: чистая теория производства, функциональное распределение дохода, технический прогресс, источники международных конкурентных преимуществ. Анализируются эластичность замещения между трудом и капиталом в обрабатывающей промышленности; производственные функции различного типа.
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TL;DR: In this article, a model of industrialization through rural-urban interdependence is presented, which shows how an economy with a low cost share of industrial inputs in agricultural production and a low expenditure share of manufactured goods, together with a limited variety of industrial input inputs, can be trapped in a low development trap.

48 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an economic DR model for residential consumers in liberalized electricity markets to change their consumption pattern from times of high-energy prices to other times to maximize their utility functions.
Abstract: Before restructuring in the electricity industry, the primary decision-makers of the electricity market were deemed to be power generation and transmission companies, market regulation boards, and power industry regulators. In this traditional structure, consumers were interested in receiving electricity at flat rates while paying no attention to the problems of this industry. This attitude was the source of many problems, sometimes leading to collapse of power systems and widespread blackouts. Restructuring of the electricity industry however provided a multitude of solutions to these problems. The most important solution can be demand response (DR) programs. This study proposes an economic DR model for residential consumers in liberalised electricity markets to change their consumption pattern from times of high-energy prices to other times to maximise their utility functions. This economic model is developed based on constant elasticity of substitution utility function known as one of the most popular utility functions in microeconomics. Simulation results indicate that the proposed model is adaptable to any group of residential consumers with any disposition towards participation in DR programs and can be adjusted for any time period according to the preference given by the residential consumer.

48 citations

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01 Jun 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that it is PPAD-hard to compute an Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium in markets with linear and non-monotone utilities.
Abstract: We introduce the notion of non-monotone utilities, which covers a wide variety of utility functions in economic theory. We show that it is PPAD-hard to compute an approximate Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium in markets with linear and non-monotone utilities. Building on this result, we settle the long-standing open problem regarding the computation of an approximate Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium in markets with CES utilities, by proving that it is PPAD-complete when the Constant Elasticity of Substitution parameter, ρ, is any constant less than -1.

48 citations

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TL;DR: Deardorff and Staiger as mentioned in this paper showed that the answer to the first question can be given in the affirmative provided all production functions and the utility function are Cobb-Douglas.

47 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the performance of the system by using the information of the user's interaction with the system and the system itself, including the interaction between the two parties.
Abstract: В статье производится анализ агрегированной производственной функции, вводится аппарат, позволяющий различать движение вдоль такой функции от ее сдвигов. На основании сделанных в статье предположений делаются выводы о характере технического прогресса и технологических изменений. Существенное внимание уделяется вариантам применения концепции агрегированной производственной функции.

10,850 citations

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3,961 citations

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01 Jan 1956
TL;DR: In this paper, a very brief treatment of three questions relating to the history of our economic growth since the Civil War is given, namely: (1) How large has been the net increase of aggregate output per capita, and to what extent has this increase been obtained as a result of greater labor or capital input on the one hand and of a rise in productivity on the other? (2) Is there evidence of retardation, or conceivably acceleration, in the growth of per capita output? (3) Have there been fluctuations in the rate of growth of output, apart
Abstract: Introduction This paper is a very brief treatment of three questions relating to the history of our economic growth since the Civil War: (1) How large has been the net increase of aggregate output per capita, and to what extent has this increase been obtained as a result of greater labor or capital input on the one hand and of a rise in productivity on the other? (2) Is there evidence of retardation, or conceivably acceleration, in the growth of per capita output? (3) Have there been fluctuations in the rate of growth of output, apart from the shortterm fluctuations of business cycles, and, if so, what is the significance of these swings? The answers to these three questions, to the extent that they can be given, represent, of course, only a tiny fraction of the historical experience relevant to the problems of growth. Even so, anyone acquainted with their complexity will realize that no one of them, much less all three, can be treated satisfactorily in a short space. I shall have to pronounce upon them somewhat arbitrarily. My ability to deal with them at all is a reflection of one of the more important, though one of the less obvious, of the many aspects of our growing wealth, namely, the accumulation of historical statistics in this country during the last generation. For the most part, the figures which I present or which underlie my qualitative statements are taken directly from tables of estimates of national product, labor force, productivity, and the like compiled by others.

1,031 citations

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01 Jan 1938

926 citations