Tangency capacity notions based upon the profit and cost functions : a non-parametric approach and a general comparison

This contribution provides a way to define and compute a tangency notion of economic capacity based upon the relation between the various directional distance functions and the profit and cost functions using non-parametric technologies. A new result relating profit and cost function-based tangency capacity notions is established.

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