Consider the Cobb-Douglas production function ?=??^??^??^? where
?, ?, ?, ? are positive constants and ?+?+?<1. Let ? be the
amount of labor, ? the amount of capital, and ? be the amount of
other materials used. Let the profit function be defined by
?=?−(??+??+??) where the costs of labor, capital, and other
materials are, respectively, ?, ?, and ?.
Determine whether second order conditions for profit
maximization hold, when the profit function is defined by
?=?−(30?+20?+10?) with ?=5?^0.3?^0.4?^0.2.