В статье на основе эмпирических данных определяется форма производственной функции компании-производителя газа в ситуации равновесия на рынке или при небольших отклонениях от него. Анализ основывается на статистических данных о функционировании 25 компаний, обеспечивавших в период проведения исследования предложение газа во французской экономике.

[An example is given of a sequence of labor managed economies with decreasing efficiency sizes for which a free entry Cournot equilibrium fails to exist.]

The paper deals with a measure theoretic model of a pure exchange economy. There are two kinds of traders: big traders, represented by atoms of the measure space, and small traders, represented by the atomless part of the measure space. The restriction of an allocation to the atomless sector is called competitive if there exists a price vector such that the consumption of every small trader is a maximal element (in terms of his preference) in the budget set defined by that price vector and by his initial endowment. We consider the set of allocations that are not blocked by any atomless coalition, or by the complement of any atomless coalition, and call it the 6~T2-core. The main results of the paper consist in defining sufficient conditions under which allocations in the Y'-core have a competitive restriction to the atomless sector, and vice versa. The economic implications and significance of the results are briefly discussed.

We use the control function approach to identify the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated in models with a continuous endogenous regressor whose impact is heterogeneous. We assume a stochastic polynomial restriction on the form of the heterogeneity, but unlike alternative nonparametric control function approaches, our approach does not require large support assumptions.

In this paper we consider the specification and estimation of the Cobb-Douglas production function model.After reviewing the "traditional" specifying assumptions for the model which are based on deterministic profit maximization, we develop a model in which profits are stochastic and in which maximization of the mathematical expectation of profits is posited."Sampling theory" and Bayesian estimation techniques for this model are presented.1. INTRODUCTION IN THIS PAPER we take up the problem of specifying and estimating a model of a profit maximizing firm operating with a Cobb-Douglas production function.Our model differs from the traditional production model considered in the literature, in that we assume that: (a) the production process is neither instantaneous nor deterministic; and (b) entrepreneurs are aware of the stochastic nature of production in their profit maximizing endeavors.This fundamental conceptual difference in our approach leads us to a new model with properties different from that of the traditional model.2Also we develop both sampling theory and Bayesian estimation procedures for the new model.The order of presentation is as follows.In Section 2 we review the traditional model, and then go on in Section 3 to formulate the new model.In Section 4, sampling theory estimation procedures are developed for the new model.In contrast with the traditional model, it is found that classical least squares provides consistent estimators of the parameters of the Cobb-Douglas production function.With a normality assumption, these are also unbiased and maximum likelihood estimators.Finally, in Section 5, a Bayesian analysis of the new model is presented.2. REVIEW OF THE TRADITIONAL MODEL According to economic theory, output, inputs, and profit of a firm are determined by the production function, the definition of profit, and the conditions of profit maximization.If the production function is of the Cobb-Douglas type with two