Increasing Returns to Scale

CES with increasing returns: two-eigenvalue Hessian, scale-scope complementarity, and why CRS is forced by scale consistency ().

Microeconomic Applications77
Impact Score
Economic Importance
7.0
Novelty
8.0
Theoretical Coverage
10.0
Empirical Coverage
7.0
Article Quality
9.0
Score Reasoning
Importance
Important supporting result. CRS forced by gamma^2=gamma is a deep consistency result. IRS Hessian structure enables market structure classification.
Novelty
New theorem: CRS is forced by scale consistency (not assumed). Two-eigenvalue IRS Hessian is a new mathematical result. Scale-scope complementarity.
Quality
Excellent exposition of CRS forcing result. Clear Hessian eigenvalue structure. Well-connected to market-structure and firm-scope.