An Estimation of Cost and Profit Functions under Cobb-Douglas Production Technology in the Coastal Fishing

Cobb-Douglas 생산기술특성하의 연안어선어업의 비용 및 이윤함수의 추정

This paper tries to estimate cost and profit functions under Cobb - Douglas production technology in the coastal fishing, using duality theory of production technology and cost function. Therefore this paper estimates in advance the production functions with two input variables, the number of working persons per tonage(WEMP) and the number of fishing equipment per tonage(WEQU). Then this paper estimates profit function and implicit cost function using the estimated coefficients from production functions. The results of this study show that the annual average profit pertonage of long bag set fishing and trap fishing amount to 4.1 million won and 3.9 million won respectively.