The Morishima Elasticity of Substitution; Symmetry, Constancy, Separability, and its Relationship to the Hicks and Allen Elasticities

DOI10.2307/2297127zbMATH Open0466.90008OpenAlexW2064323528MaRDI QIDQ3919409FDOQ3919409

Authors: Charles Blackorby, R. Robert Russell 

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297127

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrydualityseparabilityelasticity of substitutionCobb-Douglasconstancyproduction technology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

Cited In (5)

• Derivation of the Hicks, or direct, elasticity of substitution using the input distance function
• Product design in monopolistic competition
• Morishima elasticities of substitution with nested production functions
• The Heckscher-Ohlin model with monopolistic competition and general preferences
• Elasticity of substitution in a regulated firm

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