Estimate of the Elasticity of Substitution in Slovak Economy ? A Frequency Filter SUR Model

Karol Szomolányi (), Martin Luká?ik () and Adriana Luká?iková ()
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Martin Luká?ik: University of Economics in Bratislava
Adriana Luká?iková: University of Economics in Bratislava

No 6910155, Proceedings of Economics and Finance Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor in Slovak economy is estimated in the paper. To avoid normalization of the constant elasticity substitution production function problem, we focus in the capital and labor demand specification. Data series of capital, labor, output and their prices gathered from the National Bank of Slovakia macroeconomic database are used. To abstract from the business cycle shocks, data are modified by frequency filters. Finally, to avoid a false regression, the specifications are differenced. Since we do not reject the correlation between error terms of the specification, we use the seemingly unrelated regression method to estimate the coefficients. In result the estimated elasticity of substitution in the Slovak economy is relatively small; its value ranges from 0.03 to 0.11.

Keywords: elasticity of the input substitution; seemingly unrelated regression model; frequency filter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E23 E25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2018-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 10th Economics & Finance Conference, Rome, Oct 2018, pages 502-511

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