 Average-cost Pricing, Increasing Returns, and Optimal Output in a Model With Home and Market ProductionDingsheng Zhang and Yew-Kwang Ng () No 322, Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings from Econometric Society Abstract: The analysis of economies of specialization at the individual level by Yang & Shi (1992) and Yang & Ng (1993) is combined with the Dixit & Stiglitz (1977) analysis of monopolistic-competitive firms to show that, ignoring administrative costs and indirect effects (such as rent-seeking), even if both the home and the market sectors are produced under conditions of increasing returns and there are no pre-existing taxes, it is still efficient to tax the home sector to finance a subsidy on the market sector to offset the under-production of the latter due to the failure of price-taking consumers to take account of the effects of higher consumption in reducing the average costs and hence prices, through increasing returns or the publicness nature of fixed costs. Within market production, it is efficient to subsidise more the sector with a higher fixed cost, a lower elasticity of substitution between goods, and a lower degree of importance in preference which all increases the degree of increasing returns. Keywords: increasing returns; average-cost pricing; monopolistic competition; home production; optimal output; fixed costs. (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ecm:ausm04:322 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings from Econometric Society Contact information at EDIRC. |
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