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Connections Between Input and State-Contingent Output

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This chapter focuses on the production process, and especially the relationship between state of nature, choice of input and production of output, and it introduces the concepts of state-general, state-specific and state-flexible inputs.

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    Chambers and Quiggin (2000) describe such a technology as “State-allocable input technology”

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  • Chambers, R., & Quiggin, J. (2000). Uncertainty production, Choices, and agency. The state-contingent approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  • Rasmussen, S. (2011). Production economics the basic theory of production optimisation. Berlin: Springer.

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Rasmussen, S. (2011). Connections Between Input and State-Contingent Output. In: Optimisation of Production Under Uncertainty. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21686-2_7

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