Is the production function Translog or CES? An empirical illustration using UK data
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Keywords
elasticities of substitution; Translog production function; nested CES; input separability; general equilibrium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
- D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
- R15 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods
- Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2018-02-05 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2018-02-05 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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