Consider a firm that has a Cobb-Douglas technology. The firm wishes to minimize the cost of producing y units of output and has access to perfectly competitive factor markets. The firm's cost minimization problem is given by: min wl +rk {k,l} s.t. k°18 = Y Let μ denote the Lagrange multiplier on the output constraint.

Consider a firm that has a Cobb-Douglas technology. The firm wishes to minimize the cost of producing y units of output and has access to perfectly competitive factor markets. The firm's cost minimization problem is given by: min wl +rk {k,l} s.t. k°18 = Y Let μ denote the Lagrange multiplier on the output constraint.

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