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The Morishima Elasticity of Substitution for the Profit Function

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Yijian He (Southern Illinois Univ. @ Carbondale)
Subhash C. Sharma (Southern Illinois Univ. @ Carbondale)

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In this note we derive expressions for the Morishima elasticity of substitution for a multiple input and outputs profit function. These expressions may have important applications to empirical studies.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Microeconomics with number 9502002.

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Date of creation: 08 Feb 1995
Date of revision: 17 Feb 1995
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  1. Blackorby, Charles & Russell, R Robert, 1989. "Will the Real Elasticity of Substitution Please Stand Up? (A Comparison of the Allen/Uzawa and Morishima Elasticities)," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 79(4), pages 882-88, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Kohli, Ulrich, 1993. "A Symmetric Normalized Quadratic GNP Function and the U.S. Demand for Imports and Supply of Exports," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 34(1), pages 243-55, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Charles Blackorby & Daniel Primont & R. Russell, 2007. "The Morishima gross elasticity of substitution," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 28(3), pages 203-208, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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