concave.
The production possibilities frontier is concave if at least one of the production functions exhibits decreasing returns to scale.
If both production functions exhibit constant returns to scale, then the production possibilities frontier is a straight line. If both production functions exhibit increasing returns to scale, then the production function is convex.
The following numerical examples can be used to illustrate this concept. Assume that L = 5 is the fixed labor input, and X and Y are the two goods. The first example is the decreasing returns to scale case, the second example is the constant returns to scale case, and the third example is the increasing returns to scale case. Note further that it is not necessary that both products have identical production functions.



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