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Inada conditions imply that production function must be asymptotically Cobb-Douglas

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  • Barelli, Paulo
  • Pessoa, Samuel de Abreu
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    We show that every twice-continuously differentiable and strictly concave function f : R+ → R+ can be bracketed between two C.E.S. functions at each open interval. In particular, for the Inada conditions to hold, a production function must be asymptotically Cobb-Douglas.

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    Date of creation: 25 Mar 2003
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