The (normal) rate of capacity utilization at the firm level

DOI10.1111/MECA.12016MaRDI QIDQ5403744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michalis Nikiforos

Publication date 19 March 2014

Published in Metroeconomica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_737.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

capacity utilizationtheory of productioncost minimizing firm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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• Distribution and capacity utilization: conceptual issues and empirical evidence
• Harrodian instability and the `normal rate' of capacity utilization in Kaleckian models of distribution and growth -- a survey
• Investment and the Optimal Idleness of Capital
• Theoretical and empirical shortcomings of the Kaleckian investment function

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• Estimation of the production capacity utilisation rate through the marginal behaviour of the returns to scale parameter

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