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Differentiable Technology, the Curvature of the Profit Function, and the Response of Supply to Own-Price Changes
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Somerville, R. A. – Journal of Economic Education, 2007
The author establishes a property of supply for a competitive firm: Assuming differentiability of the production frontier, linearly independent price vectors have disjoint image sets under the supply mapping. This property supports the main results. First, the author drew a simple proof of McFadden's proposition that differentiability of the…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Consumer Economics, Theories, Economics Education
Using Economic Concepts to Inform Enrollment Management
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DesJardins, Stephen L.; Bell, Allison – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2006
This chapter demonstrates how institutional researchers at institutions of higher education can use economic theory for enrollment management. (Contains 4 figures.)
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Enrollment Management, Microeconomics, Higher Education