Production functions with variable elasticity of factor substitution: some analysis and testing

R Sato, RF Hoffman - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1968 - JSTOR
Once one drops the assumption of constancy and admits a variable elasticity of factor
substitution (VES), the resultant production function depends on the assumptions involved in the …

Samarium—153 EDTMP therapy of disseminated skeletal metastasis

…, EL Hetherington, RF Fleay, RF Hoffman… - European journal of …, 1989 - Springer
153 Sm-EDTMP (ethylenediaminetetramethylene phosphonate), prepared from a kit, was
administered to 28 patients in a clinical trial of therapy for painful skeletal metastases …

Factor shares and the payroll tax: a comment

RF Hoffman - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1968 - JSTOR
Conclusion The history of scrappage shown in chart 2 can now be understood in terms of
aging and market forces. The age-determined trend in the 1950's is the sum of two …

A Note on Demand for Public Goods

RF Hoffman - The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 1969 - JSTOR
In a stimulating recent article'Professor Albert Breton refers to a dominant feature of the
world of uncertainty and competition-the situation where there are externalities in output …

Disaggregation and Calculations of the Welfare Cost of a Tax

RF Hoffman - Journal of Political Economy, 1972 - journals.uchicago.edu
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of industry data disaggregation on
a Harberger-type estimate of the welfare cost of a tax.'Harberger recognized that …

Some Analysis Concerning Regressivity of Hawaii's General Excise Tax

RF Hoffman - National Tax Journal, 1965 - journals.uchicago.edu
Thus we have [yCV+ 8CV]>[yCV+ SCV], or y (CV-CV)> 8 (Cb-Ca') as the definition of regressi
vity (in the case where YA< Yb)» The following table presents the available possibilities for …

Dynamic Radionuclide Venogram Correlation with Radiographic Contrast Venography

RF Hoffman, RF Payne, JH Turner - Journal of Nuclear Medicine …, 1979 - Soc Nuclear Med
A simple technique of dynamic radionuclide venography—using a Searle LFOV gamma
camera and an associated whole-body scanning couch—was investigated to demonstrate …

Work Incentives of the Poor: A Reconsideration

RF Hoffman, BR Schiller - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1970 - JSTOR
NOTE 447 NOTE 447 any point in this region will converge to a quasi-equilibrium state with
a zero rate of growth of capital [2, p. 66]. The present note indicates that the steady-state …

NOTES ON PAYROLL TAX REBATE PROPOSALS

RF Hoffman - Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation …, 1969 - JSTOR
Proposals for rebates to low-income earners of their OASDI con tributions have come from
several places. 1 Any such proposal raises several sets of questions. One set of questions, …

DISCUSSANTS

B Bridges, RF Hoffman - Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation …, 1973 - JSTOR
We confine our comments to the Laffer-Ranson (LR) paper.** LR document that the Social
Security Program (henceforth denoted as SSP) is large and state it should be examined …