Lecture 3: Production, Costs, and Firm Supply

Topics

  • Production functions: Rate of technical substitution (RTS), elasticity of substitution, returns to scale
  • Cost minimization and cost functions
  • Profit maximization and supply decisions
  • Input demand functions and factor markets

Textbook references: Chapters 9-11

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