Derivation of the Hicks, or direct, elasticity of substitution using the input distance function

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2010.06.002MaRDI QIDQ709098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David I. Stern

Publication date 15 October 2010

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

microeconomicsproductionsubstitution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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

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