Kolm-Pollack Form, Translation Homotheticity and Tropical Limit of Production Technologies

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a new class of generalized Convex structure and we investigate their tropical limits. Some properties are pointing out such that translation homotheticity and others ones allowing to consider the case of discrete production sets that are related to some specific dual forms. Along this line a general class of mathematical programs are derived and it is shown that they can be computed using standard methods. The proposed approach allows to deal with efficiency measures (output oriented or input oriented) on continuous and discrete data.