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Price deflators and the estimation of the production function

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The use of industry indices to deflate nominal revenues and expenditure in intermediary inputs has been found to lead to lower scale estimates of the production function. This paper proposes a new approach to solve the estimation biases due to the use of industry deflators which relies on the use of the firms' labour cost.

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  • Ornaghi, Carmine, 2008. "Price deflators and the estimation of the production function," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 168-171, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:99:y:2008:i:1:p:168-171
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