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This note determines necessary and sufficient conditions for a production technology to exhibit both input translation homotheticity and output translation homotheticity without invoking joint efficiency.
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Chambers, R.G. On Input and Output Translation Homotheticity. J Econ 85, 197–203 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-005-0118-x
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