Cost behavior and price policy / a study prepared by the Committee on Price Determination for the Conference on Price Research.

Foreword, ix -- Preface, xi -- Part One. The nature of costs and prices, 3 -- I. Introduction, 3 -- II. The character of costs, 12 -- III. The dimensions of price, 33 -- Part Two. Cost behavior, 51 -- IV. Costs and rate of output: the allocation of fixed costs over time, 51 -- V. Costs and rate of output: empirical studies of cost functions, 80 -- VI. Prices of input factors and cost behavior, 116 -- VII. Technical change and costs, 142 -- VIII. Allocation of costs among products, 170 -- IX. Selling costs, 189 -- X. Costs and the size of plants and firms, 219 -- Part Three. Price Policy, 267 -- XI. The implications of cost behavior for price analysis, 267 -- Appendices, 291 -- Director's comment by C. Reinold Noyes, 341 -- Index, 347.