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Confidence Intervals for Elasticities and Flexibilities

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  • Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
  • Kling, Catherine L.
  • Sexton, Richard J.

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This paper examines methods for constructing confidence intervals around elasticity and flexibility point estimates, including three bootstrap-based appipaches, a Taylor's series approximatioq, and approaches proposed by Fieller and Scheffe. Results show that all methods except Scheffe's worked reasonably well, but the Fieller and Taylor's series methods outperformed the bootstrapped-generated intervals.

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  • Dorfman, Jeffrey H. & Kling, Catherine L. & Sexton, Richard J., 1990. "Confidence Intervals for Elasticities and Flexibilities," 1990 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Vancouver, Canada 270866, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea90:270866
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270866
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