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Features of the production factors substitution and the estimated parameters of the Cobb-Douglas function with constant returns to scale and disembodied technical change

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  • Florin Marius PAVELESCU

    (Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)

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The paper shows that, if the OLS method is used, the features of substitution between the considered production factors have an important impact on the estimated parameters of the Cobb-Douglas production function with constant returns to scale and disembodied technical change as well as on the dynamics of the total factor productivity. The author reveals the dual nature of the above-mentioned production function and identifies all the possible correlations of the estimated parameters when productivity of labour tends to grow in the long run. A special attention is paid to the possible occurence of harmful collinearity. The author reveals that the occurence of the respective type of collinearity type is dependent on the feature of the dynamics of productivity of the substituting production factor. Consequently, an extended estimation methodology is proposed in order to reveal the feature of the production factors substitution, the form of the trajectory o f thedynamics of the partial productivity of the considered production factors and the impact of colinearity on the estimated parameters. This methodology is practically used by considering the evolution of Japan`s economy during the 1971-1986 period.

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  • Florin Marius PAVELESCU, 2017. "Features of the production factors substitution and the estimated parameters of the Cobb-Douglas function with constant returns to scale and disembodied technical change," Romanian Journal of Economics, Institute of National Economy, vol. 45(2(54)), pages 134-152, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ine:journl:v:45:y:2017:i:54:p:134-152
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    1. Dobrescu, Emilian, 2006. "Macromodel of the Romanian market economy (version 2005)," MPRA Paper 35749, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    productivity function; representative index; total factor productivity; capital deeping; substituting production factor; harmful collinearity.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C18 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Methodolical Issues: General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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