Marginal and total production cost indic
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Michael R. Baye; Mary E. Deily; Dennis W. Jansen
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Article
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1991
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Springer
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English
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We show that the total cost of production index and the marginal cost of production index may be used to illuminate the course of an industry's evolution. Each of these summary statistics conveys different bits of information about the industry. Theoretical properties of the indices are compared, an